
Meet the only guy who changes his identity more often than his underwear.
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Cast
- Chevy Chase
- Joe Don Baker
- Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
- Richard Libertini
- Tim Matheson
- M. Emmet Walsh
- George Wendt
- Kenneth Mars
- Geena Davis
- Bill Henderson
- William Traylor
- George Wyner
- Tony Longo
- Larry Flash Jenkins
- Ralph Seymour
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- James Avery
- Reid Cruickshanks
- Bruce French
- Burton Gilliam
- David W. Harper
- Chick Hearn
- Alison La Placa
- Joe Praml
- William Sanderson
- Penny Santon
- Robert Sorrells
- Beau Starr
- Nico De Silva
- Peggy Doyle
- Rick Garcia
- Grace Gaynor
- Freeman King
- Loraine Shields
- Bill Sorrells
- Arnold F. Turner
- Roger Ammann
- Mary Battilana
- Henry 'Hank' Bleeker
- Donald Chaffin
- Darren Dublin
- Kristine M. Gossman
- Irene Olga López
- Merv Maruyama
- Loren Brown
- Tony Dante
- Ken DuMain
- Bob Harks
- Lars Hensen
- Conrad Hurtt
- Ernesto Molinari
- Walter Smith
- Tom Willett
Plots
Irwin M. "Fletch" Fletcher is a newspaper reporter being offered a large sum to off a cancerous millionaire, but is on the run, risking his job and finding clues when it's clear the man is healthy.
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, Los Angeles journalist, really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. Now, Fletch is at it again: In disguise as a bum, he lives at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favour. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun, so that his wife will get the insurance money. What the guy didn't think of was Fletch's real profession. Returning into normal life, Fletch instantly takes up research not only to find out that Mr. Stanwyk is healthy as life itself but he also runs into certain connections between drug dealing at the beach, Alan Stanwyk, his private jet, the police and a very expensive piece of Land in Utah.
Fletch is an ace reporter. While working on a story on Drug sales, he is approached by Alan Stanwyck who wants Fletch to murder him to save him from a lingering cancer death. Fletch begins to nose around and finds irregularities in Stanwyck's past and Underhill's Visa Number.