Fletch Lives
“When there's more trouble than one man can handle...there's more than one man for the job.”
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.
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Studio
Universal Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Fletch Lives performed
Budget
$8.0M
Worldwide Gross
$35.2M
Gross Profit
$27.2M
Return
4.4× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$5M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
Chevy Chase
Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
Hamilton "Ham" Johnson
Hal Holbrook
Hamilton "Ham" Johnson
Becky Culpepper
Julianne Phillips
Becky Culpepper
Jimmy Lee Farnsworth
R. Lee Ermey
Jimmy Lee Farnsworth
Frank Walker
Richard Libertini
Frank Walker
Ben Dover
Randall 'Tex' Cobb
Ben Dover
Calculus Entropy
Cleavon Little
Calculus Entropy
Marvin Gillet
George Wyner
Marvin Gillet
Amanda Ray Ross
Patricia Kalember
Amanda Ray Ross
KKK Leader
Geoffrey Lewis
KKK Leader
Phil
Richard Belzer
Phil
Bly Manager
Phil Hartman
Bly Manager
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