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Fletch [videorecording] / a Michael Ritchie film ; a Douglas/Greisman production ; a Universal Picture ; produced by Alan Greisman and Peter Douglas ; screenplay by Andrew Bergman ; directed by Michael Ritchie.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 61032892 | Universal Studios Home EntertainmentPublication details: Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2007]Edition: The "Jane Doe" edDescription: 1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Special features: Anamorphic widescreen -- "Just charge it to the Underhills: Making and Remembering Fletch" -- From John Cocktoastin to Harry S. Truman: The disguises -- Favorite Fletch moments -- Language: English Dolby digital 5.1 ; Spanish Dolby digital 2.0 ; French Dolby digital 2.0 -- Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, French.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Fred Schuler ; music, Harold Faltermeyer ; production designer, Boris Leven.
Cast: Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard Libertini, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tim Matheson.Summary: Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is a Los Angeles journalist who really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. This time, Fletch is in disguise as a bum, living at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favor. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun, so that his wife will get the insurance money. What the guy didn't think of was Fletch's real profession. Returning into normal life, Fletch instantly takes up research not only to find out that Mr. Stanwyk is healthy as life itself but he also runs into certain connections between drug dealing at the beach, Alan Stanwyk, his private jet, the police and a very expensive piece of Land in Utah.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD COMEDY Fletch Available 33111006506014
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Chevy Chase added a classic comic hero to the film landscape with Fletch, one of his few truly popular star vehicles in a famously misguided post-Saturday Night Live career. Chase plays Irwin M. Fletcher, known to everyone as Fletch, a Los Angeles Lakers-loving investigative reporter with a gleeful disdain for deadlines and a knack for pushing the buttons of his frustrated editor (Richard Libertini). He's also known for donning numerous disguises and assuming zany false identities to help gain information. While pursuing an ongoing story about a powerful drug dealer who operates from Venice Beach, he comes across an intriguing offshoot in which he becomes intimately involved. Aviation executive Alan Stanwyk (Tim Matheson) has an unusual proposition for Fletch: If Fletch agrees to an elaborate plan to kill him, for reasons Stanwyk refuses to divulge beyond explaining that he has bone cancer, Fletch will walk away with a healthy sum of money and a plane ticket to Brazil. Curious yet suspicious by profession, Fletch begins investigating Stanwyk's true motives, which leads him through numerous misadventures. Among them are a visit to a stuffy country club; a high-speed car chase with an unwitting passenger; repeat encounters with Stanwyk's wife (Dana Wheeler-Nicholson), although she may not be his only one; and a trip to Provo -- that's Utah, not Spain. Inspired by a novel of the same name by Gregory McDonald, Fletch went from thriller to comedy as it was adapted into a vehicle for Chase. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Based on the novel by Gregory McDonald.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1985.

Special features: "Just charge it to the Underhills:" making and remembering Fletch; "From John Cocktoastin to Harry S. Truman:" the disguises; favorite Fletch moments.

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Special features: Anamorphic widescreen -- "Just charge it to the Underhills: Making and Remembering Fletch" -- From John Cocktoastin to Harry S. Truman: The disguises -- Favorite Fletch moments -- Language: English Dolby digital 5.1 ; Spanish Dolby digital 2.0 ; French Dolby digital 2.0 -- Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, French.

Director of photography, Fred Schuler ; music, Harold Faltermeyer ; production designer, Boris Leven.

Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard Libertini, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tim Matheson.

Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is a Los Angeles journalist who really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. This time, Fletch is in disguise as a bum, living at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favor. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun, so that his wife will get the insurance money. What the guy didn't think of was Fletch's real profession. Returning into normal life, Fletch instantly takes up research not only to find out that Mr. Stanwyk is healthy as life itself but he also runs into certain connections between drug dealing at the beach, Alan Stanwyk, his private jet, the police and a very expensive piece of Land in Utah.

MPAA rating: PG.

DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono., dual-layer, NTSC.

English (Dolby 5.1), French (Dolby 2.0) or Spanish (Dolby 2.0) dialogue, French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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