The Blues Brothers is a movie novelization written by Miami Mitch in 1980 and based on the movie of the same name, directed by John Landis in 1980. The movie features Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Henry Gibson, Carrie Fisher, James Brown, Kathleen Freeman, and others.
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Storyline
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.
Movie vs Book
Year
1980
Minutes
133
Movie Rate
7.90
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Blues Brothers
Director: John Landis
Country: USA
Year: 1980
Length: 2h13m
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Year
1980
Pages
245
Book Rate
7.40
S: Goodreads
Book
The Blues Brothers
User polls & recommendations
“The biggest challenge of adapting the book was trying to make the inner lives of the characters legible through their outward actions.”
SALLY ROONEY (Writer)
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