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Name: Fletch
Released: 1985-5-31
Cast: Chevy Chase, Tim Matheson, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard Libertini

Fletch

PG
1h 38m
1985

77%

age 12+

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Chevy Chase is at his hilarious best as Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, a newspaper reporter who changes his identity more often than his underwear. While working on a drug expose, he stumbles onto a scam that gets him up to his byline in murder, police corruption and forbidden romance. For this ace newsman, it'll be the story of the year, if he can only stay alive till the deadline. Just don't call him "Irwin"!

Director:

Michael Ritchie

Producer:

Alan Greisman, Peter Douglas

Writer:

Andrew Bergman

Cast:

Chevy Chase, Tim Matheson, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard Libertini, M. Emmet Walsh, George Wendt, Kenneth Mars, Geena Davis, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

77%

Critics Consensus: Quotably funny -- and fast-paced enough to smooth over the jokes that don't land -- Fletch is one of the best big-screen vehicles for Chevy Chase's brand of smug silliness.

Reviews

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David Nusair

...benefits substantially from Chase's far-from-subtle yet mostly engaging turn as the goofy title character...

As Chevy Chase's best starring vehicle, it inverts the novels' occasional darkness into a quick-witted quip machine. But that energy feels appropriately extemporaneous here in making defenses fall or hackles rise. Either way, Fletch gets the story.

Admittedly, the storyline weaves all over the place, but no matter - Chase's performance and a plethora of daft and witty situations carry it past some structural rough spots.

What truly holds Fletch together isn't the somewhat off-putting Chase--whose screen presence was always defined by a love-it-or-hate it smugness--but his time-tested collaborators: screenwriter Bergman...and director Michael Ritchie...[Blu-ray]

It's not all about wacky disguises and goofy aliases. At its core, the film is a top notch mystery thriller.

June 21, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 12+

Common Sense Says

Chevy Chase at his very funniest. Teens OK.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this Chevy Chase classic came out just one year after the PG-13 rating was instituted, so although it's rated PG, today it would probably merit a PG-13 for its language ("bitch," "s--t," and many words starting with "ass"), sexual innuendo, and mild violence. As an investigative reporter, Fletch is a "master of disguise" who impersonates various people to gain information. The situations he gets himself into are funny and, for the most part, harmless.