<P> Concerns that the film would fail limited its initial bookings to less than half those a film of its magnitude normally received . Released in the United States on June 20, 1980, it received mostly positive reviews . It earned just under $5 million in its opening weekend and went on to gross over $115 million in theaters worldwide before its release on home video . It has become a cult classic, spawning the sequel, Blues Brothers 2000, 18 years later, which was a critical and commercial failure . </P> <P> Jake Blues is released from prison after serving three years, and is picked up by his brother Elwood in his Bluesmobile, a battered former police car . Elwood demonstrates its capabilities by jumping an open drawbridge . The brothers visit the Roman Catholic orphanage where they were raised, and learn from Sister Mary Stigmata that it will be closed unless $5,000 in property taxes is collected . During a sermon by the Reverend Cleophus James at the Triple Rock Baptist church, Jake has an epiphany: they can re-form their band, the Blues Brothers, which disbanded while Jake was in prison, and raise the money to save the orphanage . </P> <P> That night, state troopers attempt to arrest Elwood for driving with a suspended license due to 116 parking tickets and 56 moving violations . After a high - speed chase through the Dixie Square Mall, the brothers escape . The next morning, as the police arrive at the flophouse where Elwood lives, a mysterious woman detonates a bomb that demolishes the building, but miraculously leaves Jake and Elwood unharmed, and saves them from being arrested . </P> <P> Jake and Elwood begin tracking down members of the band . Five of them are playing a deserted Holiday Inn lounge, and quickly agree to rejoin . Another turns them down as he is the maître d' at an expensive restaurant, but the brothers refuse to leave the restaurant until he relents . On their way to meet the final two band members, the brothers find the road through Jackson Park blocked by an American Nazi Party demonstration on a bridge; Elwood runs them off the bridge into the East Lagoon . The last two band members, who now run a soul food restaurant, rejoin the band against the advice of one's wife . The reunited group obtain instruments and equipment from Ray's Music Exchange in Calumet City, and Ray, as usual, takes an IOU . </P>

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