| | | Meet the Only Guy Who Changes His Identity More Often Than His Underwear.
Features: DVD, English, French, Spanish, Widescreen
Chevy Chase is at his hilarious best as Irwin Fletch Fletcher, a newspaper reporter who changes his identity more often than his underwear. While working on a drug expose, he stumbles onto a scam that gets him up to his byline in murder, police corruption and forbidden romance. For this ace newsman, it'll be the story of the year, if he can only stay alive till the deadline.Featuring all-new bonus features, Fletch: The Jane Doe Edition is a must-own comedy-thriller classic. Just don't call him "Irwin"!
"A snappy, inventive comedy..." Frederic & Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice
"Good mystery...smothered in wisecracks..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"My favorite comedy of all time." Mike McGranaghan, The Aisle Seat
Editor's Note
Loosely based on the book by Gregory McDonald, director Michael Ritchie's FLETCH is a laugh-out-loud comedy that features a classic performance by Chevy Chase, who stars as Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, a crack investigative journalist who goes undercover for a story about possible connections between the L.A. police department and the local drug trade. He gets derailed when a Santa Monica businessman, Alan Stanwyk (Tim Matheson), mistakes him for a homeless man and offers him $50,000 to commit a murder. The man claims to have terminal bone cancer but can't commit suicide if he wants his family to collect on his insurance policy, so he wants Fletch to do his dirty work. Fletch pretends to accept the offer and finds that it leads him deeper into the heart of his own investigation. Working from a crackling script by Andrew Bergman, Chase relishes every line of dialogue written for his goofy, master-of-disguise character, making FLETCH one of the most influential and oft-quoted comedies of the 1980s.
Plot Summary
An investigative reporter with a talent for disguise becomes involved in a huge drug smuggling scheme and police corruption after answering the bizarre request of a dying man.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: French, Spanish Dolby Digital Mono | | Comes In 3-D Lenticular Packaging! | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Featurettes: Just Charge It To The Underhills - Making & Remembering Fletch, From John Cocktoaston To Harry S. Truman - The Disguises, & Favorite Fletch Moments | | Interactive Menus | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Fletch - DVD By: Jay Antani - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/3/2007 3:53 AM | |
If you were in junior high or high school when Fletch came out, the movie holds enormous nostalgia value, particularly if you also happened to live in L.A. at the time (like me). Fletch revealed the L.A. that its denizens knew well -- the grungy beaches, the sun-cracked streets, the drab apartment buildings. Fletch's Lakers fetish, and the offices of the Los Angeles Times-like newspaper where he worked completed the L.A. milieu that audiences here immediately hooked into. What's more, we got Chevy Chase at his wise-ass best, in a crime caper tailored to the Beverly Hills Cop crowd (of which I was an admiring member), and thrumming with Harold Faltermeyer on the soundtrack....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 5/6/2008 |
| Running Time: 98 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1985 | | Catalog ID: 61032892 | | UPC: 00025193289223 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "Can I help you Dr....?"----Receptionist|"Oh it's me, Dr. Rosenpenis. I'm just here to check out Alan Stanwyk's file."----Fletch (Chevy Chase)|"Dr. who?"----Receptionist|"Dr. Rosenrosen. I'm here to get into the records room."----Fletch|"What was that name again?"----Receptionist|"It's Dr. Rosen, I want to check the records room."----Fletch|"Dr. who?"----Receptionist|"Dr. Rosen! Where's the records room?"----Fletch | | "Where am I?"----Fletch|"You're in the records room."----Records nurse|"Oh. Do you have the Beatles' White Album? Never mind...just bring me a cup of hot fat. And the head of Alfredo Garcia."----Fletch | | "That's an interesting name, Mr...?"--Doctor|"Babar."----Fletch|"Is that with one B or two?"----Doctor|"One. B--A--B--A--R."----Fletch|"That's two."----Doctor|"Yeah, but not right next to each other. That's what I thought you meant."----Fletch|"Isn't there a children's book about an elephant named Babar?"----Doctor|"Ha, ha, ha. I wouldn't know. I don't have any."----Fletch|"No children?"----Doctor|"No elephant books."----Fletch | | "Does this proposition entail my dressing up as Little Bo Peep?"----Fletch|"It's nothing of a sexual nature, I assure you."----Alan Stanwyk (Tim Matheson)|"Yeah, I assure you."----Fletch|"One thousand just to listen. I don't see how you can pass that up, Mr...?"----Alan Stanwyk|"Nugent. Ted Nugent."----Fletch |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Easy charm....An enjoyable paperback of a film..." 05/31/1985 p.C10Los Angeles Times
"...FLETCH is smart, dead-pan dry and funny..." 05/31/1985 p.C1 Total Film
"Enjoyable..." 04/01/2004 p.132 Premiere
4 stars out of 4 -- "One of the most quotable comedies ever made where Chase is at the top of his game." 06/01/2009 DVD Verdict 9 of 10
Chevy Chase, at the top of his game, mixes smart-aleck, deadpan humor and serious suspense to perfection in Fletch. Based on the best-selling character from Gregory McDonald's series of books and sporting a fantastic synth-pop soundtrack by Harold Faltermeyer (Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun and The Running Man), Fletch is a favorite piece of '80s entertainment...Chevy Chase (Caddyshack, National Lampoon's Vacation, Snow Day) infuses Fletch with just the right level of feigned insincerity, charm, and roguishness. He's a likable guy, but not without his faults...Fletch is a great film to spin when you are looking to brighten your mood, or perhaps when you are having an '80s film festival. Strongly recommended...most advisable for Chevy Chase fans, people looking for some good action-comedy, or any devotees of '80s cinema. - Nicholas Sylvain
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
Why did Chevy Chase want to play I.M. Fletcher, the laconic hero of Gregory McDonald's, bestsellers? Was it because Chase saw a way to bring "Fletch" to life? Or was it, more likely, because Chase thought "Fletch" was very much like himself? The problem with "Fletch" is that the central performance is an anthology of Chevy Chase mannerisms in search of a character...The problem is, Chase's performance tends to reduce all the scenes to the same level, at least as far as he is concerned. He projects such an inflexible mask of cool detachment, of ironic running commentary, that we're prevented from identifying with him. If he thinks this is all just a little too silly for words, what are we to think? If we're more involved in the action than he is, does that make us chumps? "Fletch" needed an actor more interested in playing the character than in playing himself. - Roger Ebert
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