Fletch (film)

Fletch is a 1985 comic actionthriller spy film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Andrew Bergman and is loosely based on Gregory Mcdonalds popular Fletch novels. Tim Matheson, Dana WheelerNicholson, Geena Davis and Joe Don Baker appear in supporting roles.

Los Angeles Times reporter Irwin Fletch Fletcher Chase is writing an article exposing drug trafficking on the beaches of Los Angeles. Posing as an addict during his investigation, he is approached by Boyd Aviation executive vice president Alan Stanwyk Matheson who mistakenly assumes Fletch is a junkie. Stanwyk claims to have bone cancer, with only months left to live, and wishes to avoid the pain and suffering. Stanwyk offers 50,000 for Fletch to come to his mansion in a few days time, kill him, and then escape to Rio de Janeiro, staging the murder to appear as the result of a burglary.Fletch is suspicious but reluctantly agrees to the plan. Along with his colleague Larry Davis, he begins investigating Stanwyk instead of completing his drug trafficking expos, much to the dismay of his stern editor Frank Walker Libertini. Fletch endures a rectal exam from Stanwyks doctor, Dr. Dolan Walsh, in a failed attempt to talk Dolan into divulging medical information about Stanwyk. Later, disguised as a doctor, Fletch accesses Stanwyks file at the hospital and learns Stanwyk lied about having cancer. ........

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