The Blues Brothers (1980)

The ultimate getting-the-band-back-together movie. Fresh out of prison, Jake Blues and his brother Elwood go round up their old bandmates, now scattered into day jobs and supper-club gigs, to raise money for the Catholic home where they grew up, and each reunion is its own small comic set piece. John Landis surrounds the chaos with a car-wrecking budget, but the reason to watch is the music: Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi take their rhythm and blues seriously, recorded a full album as the duo, and share the screen with soul and blues legends in performance. The scene where the band plays a country bar from behind chicken wire is every bad booking you have ever survived.