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Product Name: Fletch [DVD] [1985]
UPC: 025192380846
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Classic Chevy
Great quotable Chase movie. So glad I bought it today.
Chevy Chase is perfectly cast as Irwin Fletcher, a wise cracking newspaper reporter working undercover on a beach to expose a drug running operation. As he looks into the local drug traffic, only to get caught up in insurance fraud, police corruption, embezzlement and another man's suit. At the same time, he is mistaken for a junkie by shady millionare Alan Stanwyk (Tim Matheson) who asks Fletch to murder him. Fletch agrees but launches an investigation into finding out why this man wants to be killed. This isn't lowbrow humor, it's quick witted and very fast.
This is one of Chevy Chase's finest performances!
Just watching Chevy Chase in his various disguises, spouting his various pseudonyms is funny enough. FLETCH embodies an era of comedy that is all-but over. Although it often feels like Fletch is winking to the camera throughout, he doesn't really cross that line. A funny story that doesn't utterly depend on whether or not you can catch a bunch of pop culture references.
