Blues Brothers 2000
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| Directed by | John Landis |
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| Music by | Paul Shaffer |
| Cinematography | David Herrington |
| Edited by | Dale Beldin |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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123 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $28 million |
| Box office | $14.1 million |
Blues Brothers 2000 is a 1998 American musical comedy film that is a sequel to the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, written and produced by John Landis and Dan Aykroyd. Directed by Landis, the film stars Aykroyd and John Goodman, with cameo appearances by various musicians.
Eighteen years after the original "mission from God", Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) is getting out of prison and discovering that much has changed in the time he's been away. His brother, "Joliet" Jake Blues (John Belushi) and their surrogate father-figure Curtis (Cab Calloway) have died, his band is no longer together and the orphanage where he grew up has been demolished. Elwood soon realizes that he must embark on a whole new mission - to reassemble the old band, this time with the help of a soulful bartender, Mack McTeer (John Goodman), compete at Queen Moussette's (Erykah Badu) Battle of the Bands and set a wayward orphan named Buster (J. Evan Bonifant) on the path to redemption. In the midst of the mayhem, he's got to prove to the Illinois State Police that there's magic in the music.
Special appearances and musical performances including B.B. King, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Jonny Lang, Blues Traveler, and Eric Clapton.
The Louisiana Gator Boys is a blues supergroup created for the film. They face The Blues Brothers in a battle of the bands. The band is composed of:
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