The Blues Brothers Released Date, Rating, Genre, Cast

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Released Date

June 20, 1980

Distributor

Universal Pictures

Genre

Comedy

Rating

Worldwide Gross

Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$57,229,890 + $58,000,000 = $115,229,890

Cast

Carrie Fisher, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Ray Charles, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Cab Calloway, Henry Gibson

1956-2016

Carrie Fisher

as Mystery Woman

1942-2018

Aretha Franklin

as Mrs. Murphy

1933-2006

James Brown

as Reverend Cleophus James

1930-2004

Ray Charles

as Ray

Dan Aykroyd

as Elwood Blues

1949-1982

John Belushi

as Jake Blues

1907-1994

Cab Calloway

as Curtis

1935-2009

Henry Gibson

as Head Nazi

About The Blues Brothers

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

About

Musical crime comedy from John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as the eponymous brothers based on characters developed from a Saturday Night Live sketch.

Trivia

A sequel titled Blue Brothers 2000 was released 18 years later. The film had a 25th-anniversary celebration in August 2005 at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.