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Fletch Lives

1989 · 95 min

A breezy, joke-a-minute caper that coasts on its star's smirk through a silly Southern mystery.

Tagline
When there's more trouble than one man can handle...there's more than one man for the job.
Overview
Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.

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Tone
  • lightstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • campystrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • deception
  • corruption
  • greed
  • identity
  • justice
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror1
Humour8
Realism5
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
comedy, crime, mystery
Directed by
Michael Ritchie
Written by
Leon Capetanos
Starring
Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, R. Lee Ermey, Richard Libertini, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, Cleavon Little, George Wyner
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
95 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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