The read
Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes38%
Metacritic40/100
Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
349 audience votes
Key crew
- Michael RitchieDirector
- Leon CapetanosWriter
- Harold FaltermeyerOriginal Music Composer
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
- Richard BelzerPhil
- Phil HartmanBly Manager
Stills
Themes
journalistplantationlouisianasequelfish out of waterlos angeles, californiamurder suspecttelevangelisttoxic wastehilarious