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Partners /Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.........Douglas Cheek</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Parnell Hall</B></div> <div> <B>Music............Cooper Hughes</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Andrew Bonime</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Larry Abrams</B></div> <div> <B>Based on a Story by Shepard Abbott</B></div> <div> <B>Special C.H.U.D. Make-up by John Caglione, Jr., Kevin Haney </B></div> <div> <B>                            & Ed French (Blood Rage)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Cooper.............John Heard(Cat People,Home Alone,The Seventh Sign?)</B></div> <div> <B>The Reverend A.J...Daniel Stern (City Slickers, Home Alone, Leviathan)</B></div> <div> <B>Captain Bosch......Christopher Curry (The Return of the Superfly)</B></div> <div> <B>Lauren Daniels.....Kim Greist (Duplicates, Throw Momma from the Train)</B></div> <div> <B>Commissioner.......John Ramsey </B></div> <div> <B>Wilson.............George Martin</B></div> <div> <B>Chief O'Brien......Eddie Jones (Apprentice to Murder)</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Monroe........Ruth Maleczech</B></div> <div> <B>Murphy.............J.C. Quinn (The Babe, Barfly, Maximum Overdrive)</B></div> <div> <B>Hugo...............Rocco Siclari</B></div> <div> <B>Cops in Diner......John Goodman(Arachnophobia,Barton Fink,Roseanne-TV)</B></div> <div> <B>                   Jay Thomas (Cheers, Murphy Browne))</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique</B><B>: Boy were we wrong about this one. CHUD is not bad, CHUD is good. The parallel action of the two pairs of men looking for answers works well here. This is not the only surprise Daniel Stern is excellent as the hippy preacher A.J. and the rest of the cast is very solid, particularly John Heard as Cooper and Daniel Stear as the Reverend A.J.. The C.H.U.D.s themselves are scary enough as such plastic creations go, their mouths are particularly attractive. The commissioner's spin on the CHUD story is to create a new acronym: Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal. Watch for John Goodman and Jay Thomas as Cops in the final scene. Also Heard and Stern appear here together for the first time, the beginning of a fruitful partnership: "Home Alone", "Home Alone 2", and "The Milagro Beanfield War".</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>* Blood * Violent * No Strong Language * No Nudity *</B></div> <div> <B>* No Sexual Situations * Gory *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary</B><B>: Photographer George Cooper is at home with model/girlfriend Lauren Daniels when his news writer partner Derek Murphy calls him looking for the pictures of the street people he needs to meet his deadline. George, however, can't find the homeless subjects they interviewed just a few days before. Meanwhile bloody scenes of homeless people dragged beneath the street through manhole covers are occurring all around New York City. Detective Captain Bosch can't keep a lid on it any longer, and is being pressured by freelance reporter Murphy. The detective is interrogating a bag lady who tried to steal a patrolman's gun. The baglady uses her right to telephone to call Cooper. Soup kitchen organizer and Deadhead Reverend A.J. has reported a missing person. His flock is missing a large number of undergrounders, those who live in the tunnels beneath the city. When Cooper bails out Mrs. M. she explains that she needs the gun for Victor and she needs some bandages. A.J. wants to know about the E.P.A. probe of the sewers that has lasted four weeks as opposed to the usual one week. Detective Bosch is interested and joins the Reverend for a subterranean tour of N.Y City that turns up various items generally used in nuclear power plants. A Geiger counter indicates the presence of high levels of radiation as something in the nearby tunnel roars. Meanwhile the C.H.U.D.S. (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers) are expanding to more above board activity, eating people in phone booths and attacking in broad daylight. Bosch is ready to accuse the police commissioner of a cover-up regarding the E.P.A. tests beneath the city. When he can no longer ignore the large number of disappearances, he organizes a meeting with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Reverend A.J. finally produces pictures of his chewed up friend before threatening to take his story to the newspapers. Finally, the N.R.C. commissioner levels. An underground storage of nuclear waste, which couldn't be moved due to legal hassles, has caused the Lafayette Street area to "heat up". The higher ups have become aware of a situation that has them growing increasingly nervous. At the same momemt Bosch sees the C.H.U.D. file in the Commissioner's brief case,  a call comes in reporting that two Gas Company workers have found a dead Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller. The inspection shows every indication that the C.H.U.D. was once human. The NRA Commissioner Wilson says the case is closed: "One freak, the end." Bosch wants to go down there with flame throwers and really clean up and does so against the orders of Wilson. Thus, the battle with the C.H.U.D.s begins in earnest. Cooper discovers that his photographs have been stolen and arranges to meet with Murphy to find that the police have taken the pictures as part of the cover-up. Commissioner Wilson's plan is to turn on the gas mains and wipe out a small section of Soho. When the gas goes off in A.J.'s soup kitchen, it's a bad sign, and A.J. goes to warn the homeless beneath the street and is promptly locked in by an agent who has been following him. Cooper and Murphy become believers as a result of their successful search for C.H.U.D.s. The city begins to catch on as Williams has every manhole in the city watched, close the subways and turn off the electricity. Underground, A.J. and Cooper are finally brought together by fate and must try to fight their way out of the sewer as Williams gives the command to start the gas and the tension-filled showdown begins.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>