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17/03/1989 Comedy, Crime, Mystery 1h 35m
60
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When there's more trouble than one man can handle...there's more than one man for the job.

Overview

Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.

  1. Michael Ritchie

    Director

  2. Leon Capetanos

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Chevy Chase

    Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher

  2. Hal Holbrook

    Hamilton "Ham" Johnson

  3. Julianne Phillips

    Becky Culpepper

  4. R. Lee Ermey

    Jimmy Lee Farnsworth

  5. Richard Libertini

    Frank Walker

  6. Randall 'Tex' Cobb

    Ben Dover

  7. Cleavon Little

    Calculus Entropy

  8. George Wyner

    Marvin Gillet

  9. Patricia Kalember

    Amanda Ray Ross

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by GenerationofSwine
Written by GenerationofSwine on 2023-01-14
I can understand a lot of the hate, or at least where its coming from. When I was a little kid and this first came out, most of it went right over my head...now that I am older, much, MUCH, older the fact that they are stereotyping the South in the most negative way possible is crystal clear.

But hey, it's still funny and a lot of what they are poking fun at is still true today. I mean, there are places where I make sure my St. Christopher's medal is well hidden out of fear I'll be lynched for being Catholic and I am a white male.

I guess what I am saying is that, it is a negative stereo...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$8,000,000.00

Revenue
$35,150,960.00

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