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The Blues Brothers (1980)

Directed by John Landis

Comedy | Music | Crime

Most recently watched by sensoria, Javitron, themarc, Angjonesy, Drew73, 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

Cruised down to Joliet fighting the traffic most of the way to attend the Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow event at old Joliet Prison for a screening of The Blues Brothers (1980). Originally I didn’t care so much about attending esp. since I had another Horror Society film event that same evening. However, due to chatter about the last weekend’s Rolling Roadshow events in California, I became much more enthused about hitting this one. Glad I did despite the location change from the storm.

Tell me this wasn’t gonna be cool as hell. The screening was moved from outside the prison to inside a nearby church. Sitting in the church pew wasn’t exactly comfortable but watching this nearly perfect film w/a bunch of townies more than made up for it.

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