Fletch Lives
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| Directed by | Michael Ritchie |
| Produced by | Peter Douglas Alan Greisman |
| Written by | Characters: Gregory Mcdonald Screenplay: Leon Capetanos |
| Starring | Chevy Chase Hal Holbrook Julianne Phillips R. Lee Ermey Richard Libertini Cleavon Little |
| Music by | Harold Faltermeyer |
| Cinematography | John McPherson |
| Editing by | Richard A. Harris |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 17, 1989 |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $35,150,960 (USA) |
Fletch Lives is a 1989 comedy film starring Chevy Chase. It was directed by Michael Ritchie with a screenplay by Leon Capetanos based on the character created by Gregory Mcdonald. Fletch Lives was released by Universal Pictures. It is a sequel to the 1985 film Fletch.
[edit] Plot
Chevy Chase once again plays the reporter Irwin M. "Fletch" Fletcher, who learns that he has inherited a plantation in Louisiana. Upon arriving, Fletch's aunt's lawyer is murdered, leaving Fletch to unravel the mystery.
In order to catch the real killers and clear his name, Fletch dons a series of disguises and infiltrates the congregation of television evangelist Jimmy Lee Farnsworth (whose techniques are virtually identical to those used by real-life televangelist Peter Popoff), who the audience is led to believe wants to gain control of Fletch's land in order to build a Christian theme park. It is subsequently revealed that, in actuality, a chemical company wants the land so it can dump its toxic waste there.
Fletch Lives was filmed in Louisiana.
[edit] Cast
- Chevy Chase as Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher
- Hal Holbrook as Hamilton "Ham" Johnson
- Julianne Phillips as Becky Culpepper
- R. Lee Ermey as Jimmy Lee Farnsworth
- Richard Libertini as Frank Walker
- Randall "Tex" Cobb as Ben Dover
- Don Brockett as sheriff
- Cleavon Little as Calculus Entropy
- George Wyner as Marvin Gillet
- Patricia Kalember as Amanda Ray Ross
- Geoffrey Lewis as Ku Klux Klan Leader
- Richard Belzer as Phil
- Phil Hartman as Bly manager
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