Fletch Lives is a 1989 comedy film starring Chevy Chase. It was directed by Michael Ritchie with a screenplay by Leon Capetanos based on the character created by Gregory Mcdonald. Fletch Lives was released by Universal Pictures. It is a sequel to the 1985 film Fletch.
Fletch is charged with Ross murder and taken into custody, nearly being raped by his zoophilic, necrophiliac cellmate Ben Dover Randall Tex Cobb, spared only because Dover is released on bail. Dovers lawyer Hamiliton Ham Johnson Hal Holbrook is able to get Fletch released as well. When Fletch declines a second, even larger offer for Belle Isle from the buyer, this time presented by realtor Becky Culpepper Julianne Phillips, he starts getting harassed each night at the mansion. First by a hired group of bumbling Ku Klux Klansmen, next by an arsonist who burns the mansion down and finally by Dover, who tries to kill Fletch during a raccoon hunt with some locals. Fletch discovers the land on Belle Isle to be polluted by toxic waste and sets out to uncover the identity of the anonymous buyer, whom he suspects is attempting to intimidate him into selling.He learns the local megachurch, Farnsworth Ministries, is interested in obtaining the Belle Isle property. Fletch investigates the churchs pastor, teleevangelist Jimmy Lee Farnsworth R. Lee Ermey and discovers Farnsworths daughter is Becky, the realtor who represents the buyer. The toxic chemicals in the soil of Belle Isle is traced back to Bly Bio, a toxic chemical waste facility in Mississippi. Fletch obtains an invoice from the plants manager proving Ham Johnson ordered the waste dumped on the Belle Isle land. ........
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