The Blues Brothers (film)

The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical crime comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from The Blues Brothers musical sketch on the NBC variety series Saturday Night Live. The films screenplay was written by Aykroyd and Landis.

Concerns that the film would fail limited its initial bookings to less than half those a film of its magnitude normally received. Released in the United States on June20, 1980, it received generally positive reviews. It earned just under 5million in its opening weekend and went on to gross 115.2million in theaters worldwide before its release on home video. It has become a cult classic, spawning the sequel, Blues Brothers 2000,years later.Joliet Jake Blues John Belushi is released from prison after serving three years for armed robbery. Jake is irritated at being picked up by his brother Elwood Dan Aykroyd in the Bluesmobile, a battered former Mount Prospect police car, instead of the Cadillac the brothers used to own. The brothers visit their childhood home, a Roman Catholic orphanage, and learn from their former teacher, Sister Mary Stigmata Kathleen Freeman, that it will be closed unless 5,000 in property taxes is collected. The brothers visit an evangelical church service where Jake has an epiphany they can legitimately raise the funds by reforming their rhythm and blues band. Elwood calls the quest a mission from God. ........

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