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Fletch
1985
Loosely based on the book by Gregory McDonald, director Michael Ritchie's FLETCH is a laugh-out-loud comedy that features a classic performance by Chevy Chase, who stars as Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, a crack investigative journalist who goes undercover for a story about possible connections between the L.A. police department and .. Read more
| Starring | Chevy Chase, Tim Matheson, Joe Don Baker, Richard Libertini |
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| Director | Michael Ritchie |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Fletch
Loosely based on the book by Gregory McDonald, director Michael Ritchie's FLETCH is a laugh-out-loud comedy that features a classic performance by Chevy Chase, who stars as Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, a crack investigative journalist who goes undercover for a story about possible connections between the L.A. police department and the local drug trade. He gets derailed when a Santa Monica businessman, Alan Stanwyk (Tim Matheson), mistakes him for a homeless man and offers him $50,000 to commit a murder. The man claims to have terminal bone cancer but can't commit suicide if he wants his family to collect on his insurance policy, so he wants Fletch to do his dirty work. Fletch pretends to accept the offer and finds that it leads him deeper into the heart of his own investigation. Working from a crackling script by Andrew Bergman, Chase relishes every line of dialogue written for his goofy, master-of-disguise character, making FLETCH one of the most influential and oft-quoted comedies of the 1980s.
| Starring | Chevy Chase, Tim Matheson, Joe Don Baker, Richard Libertini |
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| Director | Michael Ritchie |
| Studio | 4 FRONT VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 34 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish |
| Released | Production year: 1985 To Rent: DVD: 02 Feb 2004 |
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Two fairly routine plots (who is the Mr Big in the drug supply chain and Lady from Shanghai's 'I want you to murder me... read more on Time Out
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Light-hearted fun, but not as great as it could have been
Saturday Night Live vehicles are a funny old bag. They can be pretty terrible a lot of the time (see virtually any other Chevy Chase film) but, very ... read more »
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- Lionel Laurent
- London
- 27 Jul 2004 at 02:31
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Silly - but in a nice, inoffensive way
Got this because I remembered it with fondness from the 80s. So okay, it's a little dated (did *all* movies in the 80s have the same percussionist and ... read more »
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- BigMeUp
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- 30 May 2011 at 00:43
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Can I borrow your towel?
Reporter (Fletch) undercover as beach bum, millionaire picks Fletch to kim him, does some investigating, all is not it seems.
Average comedy with ... read more » - 820958
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- Bassman71
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- 14 Oct 2009 at 10:19
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Fletch
An OK film about an investigator working for a paper, it's just not very funny at all. I'm not sure I'd class it as a comedy, its just an average ... read more »
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- 02 Mar 2009 at 09:38
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Chevy Chase could return to Fletch role
- 10 Oct 2009
Comedy legend Chevy Chase has hinted he's set to return to the big screen in one of his most famous movie roles - playing Fletch in a forthcoming sequel. Chase played the womanising journalist in two movies in the 1980s, based on the books of author Gregory McDonald. Studio bosses have been trying to take McDonald's novel Fletch Won to the big screen for more than a decade with a number of directors including Kevin Smith linked to the film, and several actors including John Cusack, Zach Braff, Read more
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Loosely based on the book by Gregory McDonald, director Michael Ritchie's FLETCH is a laugh-out-loud comedy that features a classic performance by Chevy Chase, who stars as Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, a crack investigative journalist who goes undercover for a story about possible connections between ...
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