When there's more trouble than one man can handle...there's more than one man for the job.
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.
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Comic, classical in form, unpretentious and cool.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
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Cast
- Chevy ChaseIrwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
- Hal HolbrookHamilton "Ham" Johnson
- Julianne PhillipsBecky Culpepper
- R. Lee ErmeyJimmy Lee Farnsworth
- Richard LibertiniFrank Walker
- Randall 'Tex' CobbBen Dover
- Cleavon LittleCalculus Entropy
- George WynerMarvin Gillet
- Patricia KalemberAmanda Ray Ross
- Geoffrey LewisKKK Leader
Crew
- Michael RitchieDirector
- Leon CapetanosWriter
- John McPhersonDirector of Photography
- Harold FaltermeyerOriginal Music Composer
- Richard A. HarrisEditor
- Alan GreismanProducer
- Peter DouglasProducer
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