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- 2020
- TV-MA
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 48 m
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 48 m
Summary Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi's death, director R.J. Cutler's documentary examines the too-short life of once-in-a-generation talent who captured the hearts and funny bones of devoted audiences.
Directed By: R.J. Cutler
Written By: R.J. Cutler
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 48 m
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 48 m
Belushi
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Summary Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi's death, director R.J. Cutler's documentary examines the too-short life of once-in-a-generation talent who captured the hearts and funny bones of devoted audiences.
Directed By: R.J. Cutler
Written By: R.J. Cutler
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
72
82% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
18% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Belushi turns out to be a lot more than just another look at a star who succumbed to drug abuse, but rather a celebration of John Belushi's talent -- and an era -- as recalled by those who knew him best. R.J. Cutler's documentary has its melancholy moments, but from the opening glimpse of Belushi's "Saturday Night Live" audition video, it surely won't give you the blues.
Belushi taps the sweetness in a cultural fixture with an irreplaceably wild sense of fun.
Home movie footage shot by Judy during a period of Belushi's sobriety at the couple's summer home in Martha's Vineyard provides a poignant glimpse of the normal life he could have lived. That his early loss left so much potentially great work undone makes the documentary as much elegy as tribute.
Cutler takes on the ambitious task of showing not only Belushi’s impact, but how that impact wound up leading to his own ruin.
It’s always fun to sit through a clip reel when the talent quotient is this high, but Belushi doesn’t sugarcoat the sadness at the core of the actor’s legacy.
For a look at the life of John Belushi, it’s a fittingly brisk one. For a dive into his career, it’s one that, despite a general lack of originality, mines a few solid points.
Someday, there will be a take on the life and work of John Belushi that is as fascinating, complex, and entertaining as he was. Belushi, however, is not quite that film.
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Based on 9 User Ratings
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Production Company
Passion Pictures,
Showtime Networks,
Sky Atlantic,
This Machine
Release Date Nov 22, 2020
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating TV-MA
Genres
Tagline Everyone loved him. Few knew him.
Website
http://belushi-movie.com/
Awards
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 3 Nominations
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
• 1 Nomination
International Sound & Film Music Festival (ISFMF)
• 1 Nomination
