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Rating: 8.5 stars

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All movies seen on 08/03/2014

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The Blues Brothers (1980)

Directed by John Landis

Comedy | Musical | Action

Most recently watched by Javitron, themarc, Angjonesy, Drew73, sleestakk, danfinn, lordofthemovies, schofizzy

Overview

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

Rated R | Length 133 minutes

Actors

Dan Aykroyd | John Belushi | James Brown | Cab Calloway | Ray Charles | Aretha Franklin | Steve Cropper | Donald Dunn | Murphy Dunne | Willie Hall | Tom Malone | Lou Marini | Matt Murphy | Alan Rubin | Carrie Fisher | Henry Gibson | John Candy | Kathleen Freeman | John Lee Hooker | Tom Erhart | Gerald Walling | Walter Levine | Alonzo Atkins | Chaka Khan | Armand Cerami | Steven Williams | Kristi Oleson | Gary McLarty | Joe Cuttone | Layne Britton | Toni Fleming | Sheilah Wells | Rosie Shuster | Judith Belushi-Pisano | Lou Perryman | Paul Reubens | Ben Piazza | Gwen Banta | Lari Taylor | Cindy Fisher | Elizabeth Hoy | Tony M. Conde | Eugene J. Anthony | Dean Hill | Jack Orend | Gene Schuldt | Gary Houston | Charles Mountain | Frank Oz | John Landis | Elmore James | Stephen Bishop | Charles Napier | Steven Spielberg | Curt Clendenin | Twiggy | Steve Lawrence | De'voreaux White | Jeff Morris | Mr. T | James Avery | Raven De La Croix | Leoda Richards | Norman Matlock | S.D. Nemeth | Carolyn Franklin

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

I hadn’t seen this in ages so it was good to revisit with my kids who’d never seen it. The library disc was in bad shape, so it skipped in a few places unfortunately, but it was still a hell of a lot of fun. Always weird to see movies shot in Chicago around the time I was growing up in the area.

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