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.
Acting
Chevy Chase improvising his way through every scene like a smug tornado
Practical Effects
R. Lee Ermey's televangelist set piece — pure unhinged production design
Director
Michael Ritchie
Chevy Chase
Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
Hal Holbrook
Hamilton "Ham" Johnson
Julianne Phillips
Becky Culpepper
R. Lee Ermey
Jimmy Lee Farnsworth
Richard Libertini
Frank Walker
Randall 'Tex' Cobb
Ben Dover
Cleavon Little
Calculus Entropy
George Wyner
Marvin Gillet
Patricia Kalember
Amanda Ray Ross
Geoffrey Lewis
KKK Leader
Richard Belzer
Phil
Phil Hartman
Bly Manager
Titos Vandis
Uncle Kakakis
Don Hood
Tom Barbour
Dennis Burkley
Joe Jack
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chevy Chase allegedly rewrote much of the script on set, which explains the scattered energy and why original novelist Gregory McDonald publicly hated it.
The Belle Isle plantation is actually the same location used in Interview with the Vampire and Django Unchained — Hollywood's go-to spooky Southern estate.
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