Fletch DVD 1985 / Directed by Michael Ritchie / Starring: Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard libertini, Kareem Adbul-Jabbar

UPC 5999544255043

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

Audio: English 5.1, Hungarian 1.0

Subtitles: Hungarian

Runtime: 98 minutes

English Summary:

Fletch is a 1985 American neo-noir comedy thriller film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Andrew Bergman and is based on Gregory Mcdonald's popular Fletch novels. It stars Chevy Chase, Tim Matheson, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Geena Davis and Joe Don Baker.

Los Angeles Times undercover reporter Irwin M. "Fletch" Fletcher (who writes as "Jane Doe") is writing an article exposing drug trafficking on the beaches of Los Angeles. While posing as an addict, he is approached by Boyd Aviation executive vice president Alan Stanwyk, who assumes Fletch is a real junkie. Stanwyk claims to have bone cancer, with only months left to live, and wishes to avoid the suffering. Stanwyk offers $50,000 for Fletch to kill him at his mansion in a few days' time, stage the scene as a burglary, then flee to Rio de Janeiro.

Fletch, not completely convinced on the truth of Stanwyk's story, agrees to the plan. Along with his colleague Larry, he begins investigating Stanwyk instead of completing his drug exposé, much to the anger of his authoritarian editor Frank Walker. Disguised as a doctor, Fletch accesses Stanwyk's file at the hospital and learns he does not have cancer.

Fletch visits Stanwyk's wife Gail at her tennis club. Pretending to be a tennis instructor and Alan's friend, he flirts with her during a tennis lesson. Looking into Stanwyk's finances, Fletch finds that Gail recently converted $3 million of her personal stock in Boyd Aviation into cash for her husband, to buy a ranch in Provo, Utah. Fletch breaks into the realtor's office and discovers the sale price was only $3,000.

Hungarian Summary:

Fletch, a szenzációhajhász riporter megismerkedik Alannel, aki egy különös gyilkosságra akarja rávenni: az áldozat maga az állítólag halálos beteg Alan lenne.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Chevy Chase as Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher
• Joe Don Baker as Chief Karlin
• Dana Wheeler-Nicholson as Gail Stanwyk
• Richard Libertini as Frank Walker
• Tim Matheson as Alan Stanwyk
• M. Emmet Walsh as Dr. Dolan
• George Wendt as Fat Sam
• Kenneth Mars as Stanton Boyd
• Geena Davis as Larry
• Bill Henderson as Speaker
• George Wyner as Marvin Gillet
• Larry "Flash" Jenkins as Gummy
• Ralph Seymour as druggie under the dock

The film makes numerous references to Fletch's favorite team, the Los Angeles Lakers, and includes appearances by Lakers player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and play-by-play announcer Chick Hearn, as themselves.