FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
The Blues Brothers
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer72%as of 2024-08-02
- Rotten Tomatoes average7.6/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic60/100as of 2025-07-14
What it is
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd as his brother Elwood, characters developed from the recurring musical sketch "The Blues Brothers" on NBC's variety series Saturday Night Live. The script is set in and around Chicago, Illinois, where it was filmed, and the screenplay is by Aykroyd and Landis.
At a glance
- Genres
- Music / Comedy
- Original language
- English
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