Fletch travels to Provo and breaks into the realtor's office and discovers the sale price was only $3,000. 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. Pretending to be a tennis instructor and Alan's friend, he flirts with her during a tennis lesson. Disguised as a doctor, Fletch accesses Stanwyk's file at the hospital and learns he does not have cancer.įletch visits Stanwyk's wife Gail at her tennis club. Along with his colleague Larry, he begins investigating Stanwyk instead of completing his drug exposé, much to the chagrin of his authoritarian editor Frank Walker. 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.įletch, not completely convinced of the truth of Stanwyk's story, agrees to the plan.
Stanwyk claims to have bone cancer with only months left to live, and wishes to avoid the suffering. While posing as an addict, he is approached by Boyd Aviation executive vice president Alan Stanwyk, who assumes Fletch is a real junkie. "Fletch" Fletcher (who writes as "Jane Doe") is writing an article exposing drug trafficking on the beaches of Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times undercover reporter Irwin M. Subsequent decades saw many unsuccessful attempts to restart or reboot the series another Fletch film, Confess, Fletch starring Jon Hamm, was finally produced in 2022. It has since developed a cult following and was followed by a 1989 sequel, Fletch Lives. Fletch becomes suspicious when he discovers the man is not ill when he continues to investigate, his life is threatened.įletch did well with critics and at the box office – it was among the top 50 grossing domestic films in its first year of release.
"Fletch" Fletcher, who is offered a large sum of money by a millionaire to kill him, claiming he has a terminal cancer prognosis and suicide would invalidate his life insurance policy. The film revolves around Los Angeles Times reporter Irwin M. It co-stars Tim Matheson, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Geena Davis and Joe Don Baker. Based on Gregory Mcdonald's popular Fletch novels, the film stars Chevy Chase as the eponymous character. Fletch is a 1985 American neo-noir comedy thriller film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Andrew Bergman.
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