Fletch Lives (1989)

Overview · Where to watch · Cast & crew · Reviews

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.

• Released: 1989-03-17
• Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
• Runtime: 1h 35m
• Status: Released
• TMDB rating: 6.0/10 from 349 votes

Directed by Michael Ritchie.

Top cast

• Chevy Chase as Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
• Hal Holbrook as Hamilton "Ham" Johnson
• Julianne Phillips as Becky Culpepper
• R. Lee Ermey as Jimmy Lee Farnsworth
• Richard Libertini as Frank Walker
• Randall 'Tex' Cobb as Ben Dover
• Cleavon Little as Calculus Entropy
• George Wyner as Marvin Gillet
• Patricia Kalember as Amanda Ray Ross
• Geoffrey Lewis as KKK Leader

Full cast & crew

Where to watch Fletch Lives

• United States: rent on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home; buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
• United Kingdom: rent on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Sky Store, YouTube; buy on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Sky Store, YouTube
• India: rent on Amazon Video
• Canada: rent on Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, CosmoGo, YouTube, Amazon Video; buy on Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, CosmoGo, YouTube, Amazon Video
• Australia: rent on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fetch TV; buy on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fetch TV

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