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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin appears in The Blues Brothers, the film adaptation of the book by Miami Mitch The Blues Brothers, first published in 1980.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
The Blues Brothers. Poster of the 1980 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Blues Brothers
Miami Mitch, 1980
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The Blues Brothers
John Landis, 1980

Blues vocalist and petty criminal Joliet Jake Blues is paroled on good behavior grounds from Joliet Correctional Center after serving three years of a five-year sentence, and is picked up by his blood brother Elwood in his Bluesmobile, a battered, decommissioned police car. The brothers visit the Roman Catholic orphanage where they were raised, and learn from Sister Mary the Penguin Stigmata and old friend Curtis that it will be closed unless $5,000 in property taxes is collected.