Fletch/Fletch Lives

Double bill of the comical Chevy Chase character. ‘Fletch’ (1985) features Chevy Chase as a newspaper reporter with a talent for disguise. While working undercover to catch some drug traffickers, the hapless Fletch meets wealthy businessman Stanwyk (Tim Matheson). Claiming to be suffering from terminal cancer, Stanwyk asks Fletch to engineer a break-in to his mansion and bump him off so that his wife can claim the life insurance. Smelling a rat, Fletch goes undercover to investigate. In ‘Fletch Lives’ (1989), the disguise-happy reporter flies to check out an enormous Louisiana home left to him in a will, only to find it a ruin. Before he can leave, a woman drops dead and he becomes embroiled in another murder mysterySynopsis
Features the Chevy Chase comedies Fletch and Fletch Lives. In Fletch, an investigative reporter with a talent for disguise becomes heavily involved in a huge drug smuggling scheme as the result of a bizarre request. In Fletch Lives, Fletch gets a call informing him that his aunt has died, leaving him her 80-acre Southern plantation. Believing that his luck has changed, he packs his best tennis shoes and heads off for the sun.