Director: John Landis
Cast includes: John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Aretha Franklin, Carrie Fisher, James Brown
Presented by Hastings Fringe Comedy Festival
132 Mins / 1980 / USA

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This December Hastings Fringe Comedy Festival presents these special screenings of The Blues Brothers with ticket sales very generously being donated to the Electric Palace.

Chris and Jake from the comedy fest team will be coming along to watch the film on 5 December.

This extremely entertaining and successful comedy is packed with car chases, music and cameo appearances. Blues brothers Jake and Elwood (John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd) have sold their souls to rhythm'n'blues, but still lend a hand when the church orphanage in which they were raised is threatened with closure.
Resolving to get their old band together and stage a fund-raising gig, the brothers have God on their side but everyone else against them - and that includes a bunch of Country and Western rednecks, an angry chapter of neo-Nazi thugs, the massed ranks of the Chicago police force, and Jake's psychotic ex-girlfriend Camille (Carrie Fisher).

Don’t miss your chance to dance the jailhouse rock during one of the greatest musical comedies of all time.

A message from our cinema director, Rebecca Marshall:
As we have been unable to operate at our previous full capacity since reopening, and with safety measures unlikely to be able to relax anytime this year, we are facing mounting building rental costs, film licensing costs and other overheads that were previously viable when we were open at full capacity.

Unless all our current season of films sell out, the cinema will be unable to continue into 2021 and will likely close.

With this in mind I make this plea to all to help sustain this much-loved community asset:

How you can help:

Thank you.