Fletch
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Short description
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is a Los Angeles newspaper reporter who writes under a false name and works undercover in disguises. While investigating drug dealing on the beaches, he is mistaken for a vagrant and approached by a wealthy businessman, Alan Stanwyk, who asks Fletch to kill him for a large sum of money, claiming he is terminally ill and that his life insurance will pay out only in the case of murder. Fletch takes the offer but becomes suspicious and starts looking into Stanwyk's affairs, which brings him threats and trouble as he tries to work out what is really going on.
The 1985 comedy was directed by Michael Ritchie, the eighth of the fifteen films he directed in chronological order, following The Survivors and preceding The Golden Child, from a screenplay by Andrew Bergman. Chevy Chase plays Fletch, with Tim Matheson as Stanwyk, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson as Gail Stanwyk, Joe Don Baker as Chief Jerry Karlin, Richard Libertini as Frank Walker and Geena Davis as Larry.
Made for about 8 million dollars, it took roughly 60 million worldwide, a strong return on its budget. On IMDb it holds 6.9 out of 10 from around 61,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.8 from roughly 799 votes. A critics' rating of 6.9 from 34 reviews puts critical opinion broadly in line with how audiences have rated it.
What's left behind the scenes
- When choosing an actor for the lead role, Gregory McDonald—the screenwriter and author of the Fletcher novels that served as the literary basis for the script—rejected Mick Jagger and Burt Reynolds, and suggested that Chevy Chase play the journalist Fletcher.
- The film depicts a banquet in honor of Fred Dorfman. This was the name of Kent Dorfman's brother in John Landis's comedy Animal House (1978), which Chevy Chase was originally intended to star in. The role intended for Chase was later given to Tim Matison, who also appeared in Fletcher.
- In the scene with the character played by William Trailer, Chevy Chase's character performs his signature gag—looking at his watch on the wrong wrist.
- According to Chevy Chase, he wore dentures while playing J. Gordon Liddy, which helped him remain unrecognizable.
- On the original posters, Fletcher is shown in various disguises, including that of a hockey player. The scenes in which he is in this disguise did not make it into the film.
- According to director Michael Ritchie, while the script for Fletcher was being developed, Andrew Bergman (one of the screenwriters) became the director of the sequel to the film Father of the Bride (Arthur Hiller, 1979), but was later removed from the position. In Bergman's absence, Ritchie invited Jerry Belson (1938-2006) and Phil Alden Robinson to write the script. Bergman soon returned to the project and helped finalize the screenplay.
- According to George Wyner, his character was originally written for only one scene, but was later added to another scene, albeit under a different name.
- In the film's finale, the main character is shown wearing the same baseball cap that viewers saw Brett (played by Harry Dean Stanton) wearing in Ridley Scott's sci-fi film 'Alien' (1979).
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