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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

79%

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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®

79%

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

Q Network Film Desk

James Kendrick

Fletch is first and foremost a Chevy Chase vehicle, and how well the film works for you will depend heavily on how much you enjoy Chase’s shaggy comic style, which freely mixes deadpan dialogue and physical slapstick with heavy doses of sarcasm

Plenty of choice quips (“You using the whole fist, doc?”) tossed off with panache by one of the original Not Ready for Prime-Time Players.

“Fletch” is a fun comedy romp from the ‘80s—with a bouncy synth-heavy score, tight pacing, and good performances.

...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.

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Additional Info

Genre:Comedy
Release Date:May 31, 1985
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
5.1

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