The legendary 1950s-era TV show Happy Days
gets reinvented as a gritty 1980s noir.
Late October, 1984. Prince and Bruce
are dominating FM radio. Ron and Nancy are headed back to
the White House. Crockett and Tubbs are leading men
everywhere to embrace pastels. And Richard Cunningham? Well,
Richard Cunningham is having a really bad
Sunday.
First, there's the meeting with his agent. A
decade ago, the forty-something Cunningham was one of
Hollywood's hottest screenwriters. But Tinseltown is no
longer interested in his artsy, introspective scripts. They
want Terminator cyborgs and exploding Stay Puft
Marshmallow men. If he isn't interested in that sort of
thing, his agent tells him, he's gonna have to find new
representation.
Then later that same day he gets a
phone call with even worse news. His best friend from
childhood back in Milwaukee, back when everyone called him
Richie, is dead. Arthur Fonzarelli. The Fonz. Lost
control of his motorcycle while crossing a bridge and
plummeted into the water below. Two days of searching and
still no body, no trace of his trademark leather
jacket.
Richard flies back for the memorial service,
only to discover that Fonzie's death was no accidentβit was
murder. With the help of his old pals Ralph Malph and Potsie
Weber, he sets out to catch the killer. Who it turns out to
be is shocking. So is the story's final
twist.
Who Killed The Fonz? imagines what
happened to the characters of the legendary TV series
Happy Days twenty years after the show left off. And
while much has changed in the interimβgoodbye drive-in movie
theaters, hello VCRsβthe story centers around the same
timeless themes as the show: the meaning of family. The
significance of friendship. The importance of
community.
Fast-paced and full of nostalgia, Who
Killed the Fonz? is an ingenious twist on a beloved
classic that proves sometimes you can go home
again.
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