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
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.