The defence The Cool Ironist
“It owes the canon nothing.”
The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.
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Fletch Lives
Comedy · Crime · Mystery · 1989
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.
Movie details
Fletch Lives
“When there's more trouble than one man can handle...there's more than one man for the job.”
1989 Comedy · Crime · Mystery 1h 35m
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
TMDB
6.0 / 10
Community rating
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.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over Fletch Lives?
For the defence
The Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Prestige Tourist
“You like your greatness pre-approved.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Cast & crew
Directed by
Michael Ritchie
Written by
Leon Capetanos
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
Court is in session
Put Fletch Lives on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Prestige Tourist
“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”
It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.