Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard Libertini, Tim Matheson...
Runtime:
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MPAA Rating:
-
In Theaters:
31 May 1985 (USA)
Distribution:
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
Distributors
Universal Pictures (USA) (theatrical)
Universal Home Entertainment (1998) (USA) (DVD)
Universal Home Entertainment (2007) (USA) (DVD) (Special Edition)
Universal Pictures (Spain) S.L. (2002) (Spain) (DVD)
Universal Pictures Finland Oy (2002) (Finland) (DVD)
Special Effects
Universal Title
Other Companies
MCA Records soundtrack album
Renato Aragão Produções Cinematográficas brazilian administrative producer
Universal Title titles
Meet the only guy who changes his identity more often than his underwear.
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, Los Angeles journalist, really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. Now, Fletch is at it again: In disguise as a bum, he lives at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favour. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun, so that his wife will get the insurance money. What the guy didn't think of was Fletch's real profession. Returning into normal life, Fletch instantly takes up research not only to find out that Mr. Stanwyk is healthy as life itself but he also runs into certain connections between drug dealing at the beach, Alan Stanwyk, his private jet, the police and a very expensive piece of Land in Utah.