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BELUSHI, A Candid Portrait of the Legendary Comedian, Launches on Showtime November 22nd – We Are Movie Geeks

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BELUSHI, A Candid Portrait of the Legendary Comedian, Launches on Showtime November 22nd

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Candid Portrait of a Beloved Comedy Icon Featuring Previously Unheard Audiotapes Directed by R.J. Cutler (Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry)

By age thirty John Belushi was on the top-rated television show, had the top grossing comedy in movie history and the top grossing record album in the world. But as John’s fame grew, so did his demons. R.J. Cutler directs an examination of Belushi’s life drawn largely from a previously unheard audio archive made shortly after Belushi’s death by his high school sweetheart and later wife, Judy Belushi. Cutler tells the story of his too-brief life illustrated by his own diary entries and poems, and in words of Judy and his collaborators, friends, and family, including Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi, Penny Marshall, Lorne Michaels, Carrie Fisher, Chevy Chase, Harold Ramis, Jane Curtin, and Ivan Reitman.