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Released
1989 · FILM

Fletch Lives

A fast‑talking reporter inherits a crumbling Louisiana mansion and becomes the prime suspect when a local woman he’s flirting with turns up dead, forcing him to outwit corrupt townsfolk and expose the real killer before his own freedom is lost.

When there's more trouble than one man can handle...there's more than one man for the job.

Directed by
Runtime
95 min
ComedyCrimeMystery
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Fletch finds himself out of place in a small town in Louisiana, where he has inherited a run-down mansion. After a woman he flirts with is found dead, he becomes a suspect in her murder and must uncover the truth to clear his name.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Richard A HarrisShot by John McphersonScored by Harold Faltermeyer

Box Office

1989 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$35.2M

Budget$8.0M
Worldwide gross$35.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $8.0M 23% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $11.4M32% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,479 theaters

Also known as

  • Fletch – Der Tausendsassade
  • Fletch 2 – Der Troublemaker kehrt zurückde
  • Fletch II - Der Troublemaker kehrt zurückde
  • Fletch revivees
  • Autant en emporte Fletch !fr
  • Fletch, cronista d'assaltoit

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