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  • Salvador
  • Salvador review by Cato from Lydbury North
    Rated - 4.0 stars Sad State of Humanity 18 September 2009
    ...seedy journalist getting caught up in El Salvador's troubles with his sidekick, James Belushi. It' s a pretty violent film, which it had to be given the territory it was co...   Read customer review
  • The Principal
  • The Principal review by from Essex, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars We Should All Have Principals Like This 21 July 2005
    ...Story about a teacher (James Belushi)who has reached the end of the road as he tries to get over a divorce. He is given one last chance as a principal of a school in a bad p...   Read customer review
  • K-9
  • K-9 review by from Kent, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars As good today as it was yesterday! 22 January 2004
    ... dog) takes his time to make his entrance, but what an entrance! Very funny and James Belushi is great. From what i can remember this film came out around the same time as T...   Read customer review

James Belushi - filmography


  • Snow Buddies on DVD (2008)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Jimmy Bennett,  lothaire bluteau (voice)
    Director: Robert Vince
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    It's fun in the slush and snow as five adorable pooches leap into the hearts of children everywhere in SNOW BUDDIES. The adventure starts when B-Dawg, RoseBud, Buddha, MudBud, and Budderball unwittingly find themselves on a far north journey to Alaska. Taking the rascals under his wing (er, paw) is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5,392 members
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  • Underdog - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Jason Lee,  Peter Dinklage,  James Belushi
    Director: Frederik Du Chau
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    To save the day, here comes Underdog, a 1970s Saturday morning cartoon transformed to glorious, semi-CGI animated life; it's a talking animal live-action film--a la BABE--with wisecracks aplenty. Voiced by Jason Lee, Underdog is the joke of the K-9 police force after his weakness for ham disrupts a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,163 member
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  • The Wild on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Kiefer Sutherland,  James Belushi,  Eddie Izzard
    Director: Steve 'Spaz' Williams
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    An adolescent lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring him back. With the voice talents of Kiefer Sutherland as Samson, Eddie Izzard as Nigel, James Belushi as Benny, Janeane Garolfalo as Bridget and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 19,470 members
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  • Hoodwinked on DVD (2005)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Glenn Close,  Anne Hathaway
    Director: Cory Edwards,  Todd Edwards,  Tony Leech
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    It was a crime that rocked the fairytale world. Now Granny's woodland cottage is being turned into a crime scene as all the familiar storybook characters are called in for questioning. Shocking truths are revealed, casting doubt on everything you once held as true; does Little Red Riding Hood have ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 25,298 members
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  • One Way Out on DVD (2002)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Jason Bateman,  Angela Featherstone
    Director: Allan Goldstein
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jim Belushi is Harry Woltz, a homicide detective with a serious gambling addiction. When he finds himself greatly indebted to the Russell brothers--the dangerous owners of a seedy club--Harry is unable to pay up. With the exception of paying with his blood, the Russells give Harry one option--help ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 113 members
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  • K-9: P.I. on DVD (2002)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Gary Basaraba,  Jody Racicot
    Director: Richard J. Lewis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Detective Thomas Dooley and his partner Jerry Lee, the German Shepherd are back once again to fight crime. This time it is to clear Thomas' name when he becomes a suspect in an armed robbery...
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,547 member
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  • Joe Somebody on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Kelly Lynch,  Julie Bowen,  James Belushi
    Director: John Pasquin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Tim Allen reteams with director John Pasquin (THE SANTA CLAUSE) in JOE SOMEBODY. Allen stars as Joe Scheffer, a mild-mannered man who makes promotional videos for a Minneapolis pharmaceutical company. Joe is divorced and quietly unhappy until the office bully, Mark McKinney (Patrick Warburton), ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 643 members
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  • Return to Me on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Robert Loggia,  David Alan Grier,  Bonnie Hunt
    Director: Bonnie Hunt
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Return To Me is an endearing romantic comedy infused with real life humor. Life can change in an instant and it does for Bob Rueland and Grace Briggs. A lonely Bob is embraced by Grace, who is surrounded by a coterie of substitute mothers including her Irish grandfather, who with his Italian ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,783 members
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  • My Neighbours The Yamadas on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Tarou Masuoka,  Yukiji Asaoka,  Masako Araki
    Director: Isao Takahata
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humourous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, problems and joys in their own way.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,435 member
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  • Made Men on DVD (1999)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Michael Beach,  Timothy Dalton
    Director: Louis Morneau
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bill Mannuci stole twelve million dollars from the mob while working for them and gave the FBI information about the person he stole the money from. Needless to say four of the mob track Bill down to his new home in a country town...
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 140 members
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  • K-911 on DVD (1999)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Christine Tucci,  James Handy
    Director: Charles T. Kanganis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Detective Dooley (James Belushi) and his four-legged partner Jerry Lee (Mac The Dog) are still fighting crime with a mix of heroics and hilarity. Now reluctantly partnered with a younger K-9 team, Dooley and Jerry Lee track down a lunatic who's wreaking havoc on the city.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,051 members
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  • Justice on DVD (1999)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Charles Durning,  JoBeth Williams
    Director: Joakim Ersgard
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A mole who has lived undercover for years is anxious to smash an organised crime syndicate even if it means going to jail. When he eventually earns the respect of the Chicago crime lord he thinks it's only a matter of time....
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 47 members
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  • Angel's Dance on DVD (1999)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Sheryl Lee,  Kyle Chandler
    Director: David L. Corley
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Medieval theologians spent many hours contemplating exactly how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. This film, however, is less concerned with splitting hairs than with splitting heads. Tony, a Mafia hitman-in-training, is studying the art of the hit with Yoda-figure Stevie--a Nietzche-..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 89 members
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  • Gang Related on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Tupac Shakur,  Dennis Quaid,  James Earl Jones
    Director: Jim Kouf,  Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A pair of corrupt police officers discover the hard way that crime really doesn't pay in this action drama. Divinci (James Belushi) and Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) are two New York undercover cops with serious money problems: Rodriguez owes a huge gambling debt, while Divinci wants to retire to Hawaii ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 742 members
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  • Retroactive on DVD (1997)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Kylie Travis,  Shannon Whirry
    Director: Louis Morneau
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    What if you could go back in time to save a life? What if you could avert disaster? Karen Warren finds herself in the middle of an emergency, with the power to turn back the clock and rescue a battered womn. Her car breaks down on a hot Texas afternoon, and Frank, a despicable and lecherous man, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 384 members
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  • Peril on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Dean Stockwell,  Rob Lowe,  James Belushi
    Director: Jack Ersgard
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Walter is an ambitious young architect who believes he is at the turning point of his career. He speeds towards a wealthy new client in LA unaware of the turn of events that will change his life or end it altogether...
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 75 members
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  • Jingle All The Way on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Phil Hartman,  Rita Wilson
    Director: Brian Levant
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Turbo Man action dolls are the christmas craze- in the spirit of real life Tickle-Me-Almo. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad mug shamelessly through this holiday slapstick about two guilt-wracked fathers racing around Minneapolis on Christmas Eve trying to buy their sons a sold-out Turbo Man.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 4,925 members
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  • The Pebble and the Penguin (1995)
    Starring: Tim Curry,  Martin Short,  James Belushi
    Director: Don Bluth,  Gary Goldman
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    From the majestic landscape of a frozen land comes a beloved animated adventure to warm everyone's heart. Featuring the incomparable songs of Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, and the voice talents of Martin Short, James Belushi, Tim Curry and Annie Golden, this animated tale from the creator of The ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 8 members
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  • Destiny Turns on the Radio (1995)
    Starring: Dylan McDermott,  Nancy Travis,  Quentin Tarantino
    Director: Jack Baran
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Dodge RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren't always as they seem. Anything can happen in that town of many possibilities...especially since there's been some weird electrical disturbances. As the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 1 member
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  • Separate Lives on DVD (1995)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Linda Hamilton,  Vera Miles
    Director: David Madden
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A beautiful psychology professor asks a homicide detective to watch her and he soon discovers her darker alter ego which comes out at night. When clues implicate her in a murder, he balks at accusing her, already feeling attracted to both her personalities.
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 136 members
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  • Sahara (1995)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Alan David Lee
    Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied soldiers, but soon they are running out of water. They find water at the ancient well, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 49 members
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  • Last Action Hero on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  F. Murray Abraham,  Art Carney
    Director: John McTiernan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A Schwarzenegger double-bill.THE 6TH DAY: In the not-too-distant future, when pets can be cloned after they die and "virtual girlfriends" can be installed and programmed, Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger) works as a helicopter tour pilot. On his birthday he comes home to discover an identical ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 11,054 members
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  • Once Upon A Crime (1992)
    Starring: John Candy,  James Belushi,  Cybill Shepherd
    Director: Eugene Levy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A spurned woman and an unemployed actor travel to Monte Carlo to deliver a lost dachshund to its owner and collect a $5,000 reward. But the dog's owner has been murdered and through a bizarre series of complications, the pair becomes implicated in the crime. A madcap murder mystery ensues involving ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 25 members
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  • Traces Of Red (1992)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Lorraine Bracco,  Tony Goldwyn
    Director: Andy Wolk
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jack, a Palm Beach detective, becomes involved in a case of multiple murders. All the women can be linked to Jack in some way. Jack and his partner have no leads, but numerous suspects. The murders continue, along with anonymous letters from the killer.
    1.5 stars out of 5 27% from 17 members
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  • Curly Sue (1991)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Kelly Lynch,  Steve Carell
    Director: John Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Curly Sue (Alisan Porter) might look like a cherub, but this street urchin has a lot of tricks up her sleeve. She and her streetwise guardian, Bill Dancer (Jim Belushi), can scam with the best of them. When they pull a fast one on Grey Ellison (Kelly Lynch), a high-powered corporate attorney, they ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 286 members
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  • Taking Care Of Business on DVD (1990)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Charles Grodin,  Anne De Salvo
    Director: Arthur Hiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Small time car thief, Jimmy Dworski, escapes from a minimum security prison and happens upon a wallet belonging to successful businessman Spencer Barnes. Jimmy has every intention to return the wallet but is tempted to steal Spencer's identity for a while...
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 518 members
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  • Homer And Eddie on DVD (1989)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Whoopi Goldberg
    Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Homer is brain damaged and lacks the 'smarts' of others of his own age. Eddie is an excitable woman who has been told that she has only a month to live. The two unlikely companions begin a strange trek across country.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 149 members
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  • K-9 on DVD (1989)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Mel Harris,  Kevin Tighe
    Director: Rod Daniel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    James Belushi stars as Thomas Dooley, a narcotics cop whose unorthodox methods make him unable to team up with anybody on the force--nobody human, that is. When Dooley needs help busting a prominent drug dealer, he is assigned a partner named Jerry Lee--who is, in fact, a rather headstrong German ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,611 members
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  • Red Heat on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  James Belushi,  Peter Boyle
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After scoring a hit with the Eddie Murphy-Nick Nolte cop thriller 48 Hours, director Walter Hill returned to the buddy formula with this half-ridiculous, half-invigorating action flick about humourless Russian cop Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger). He follows a drug dealer from Moscow to Chicago, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 5,500 members
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  • Red Heat - Blu-ray (1988)
    Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  James Belushi,  Peter Boyle
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Walter Hill's RED HEAT, a highly disciplined Russian detective (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a tough-talking Chicago cop (James Belushi) are one mismatched team hot on the trail of Russia's deadliest drug smuggler throughout the mean streets of the Windy City.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 340 members
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  • The Principal on DVD (1987)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Louis Gossett Jr.,  Rae Dawn Chong
    Director: Christopher Cain
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When hard-drinking, motorbike-riding Rick Latimer (James Belushi) gets thrown out of the upscale high school where he teaches after drunkenly trashing a car with a baseball bat, he gets "promoted" to the position of principal--at the worst high school in the city. This is the kind of drug-infested ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 423 members
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  • Real Men (1987)
    Starring: James Belushi,  John Ritter,  Barbara Barrie
    Director: Dennis Feldman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Super-agent Nick Pirandello is on a mission to save the whole world by obtaining a special formula from a race of alien beings. The formula is an antidote to a dangerous toxin that is destroying the food chain and will end life on Earth. But first Nick must get the unwilling help of a mild-mannered ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 53 members
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  • About Last Night on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Rob Lowe,  James Belushi,  Demi Moore
    Director: Edward Zwick
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Danny (Rob Lowe) and Debbie (Demi Moore) are in love--on a strictly casual basis--in this sexy comedy. Based on David Mamet's stage play SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO, director Edward Zwick's ABOUT LAST NIGHT... is a funny, provocative, and often insightful look at young romance in the 1980s. At a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,323 members
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  • About Last Night - Blu-ray (1986)
    Starring: Rob Lowe,  James Belushi,  Demi Moore
    Director: Edward Zwick
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Danny (Rob Lowe) and Debbie (Demi Moore) are in love--on a strictly casual basis--in this sexy comedy. Based on David Mamet's stage play SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO, director Edward Zwick's ABOUT LAST NIGHT... is a funny, provocative, and often insightful look at young romance in the 1980s. At a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 33 members
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  • Little Shop of Horrors on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Rick Moranis,  Ellen Greene,  Steve Martin
    Director: Frank Oz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Seymour Krelborn works and lives in a rundown flower shop on Skid Row. While his boss, Gravis Mushnick, struggles to keep the shop open, Seymour seeks a way of bringing the shop--and himself--fame and fortune. He purchases an exotic plant from an oriental street vendor, naming the plant Audrey II, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 8,826 members
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  • The Man With One Red Shoe on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  James Belushi,  Lori Singer
    Director: Stan Dragoti
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The life of an eccentric violinist is turned upside down when he is mistaken for a C.I.A. agent.In the midst of an internal power struggle at the CIA, Ross (Durning), chief of one branch of the agency, plays a trick on Cooper (Coleman), chief of a rival branch. Ross picks out a random innocent--a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,054 member
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  • Salvador on DVD (1985)
    Starring: James Woods,  James Belushi,  John Savage
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Oliver Stone's first overtly political film, SALVADOR is a passionate protest against the savagery unleashed by fascist thugs in El Salvador during the early 1980s with the complicity of the U.S. government. It stars James Woods as combat photojournalist Richard Boyle, an erratic, cynical character ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,241 members
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  • Thief on DVD (1981)
    Starring: James Caan,  Tuesday Weld,  Willie Nelson
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Thief, James Caan plays Frank, a professional jewel thief who wants to marry Jessie (Tuesday Weld) and settle down into a normal life. In order to achieve his dream of a family, Frank--who is used to working solo--has to align himself with a crime boss named Leo (Robert Prosky), who will help ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,034 member
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James Belushi facts

5 most recent films

The Ghost - 3.5 stars
The Ghost - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Scooby Doo And The Goblin King - 3.5 stars
Snow Buddies - 3.5 stars
Underdog - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Taking Care Of Business - 3.5 stars
Snow Buddies - 3.5 stars
Little Shop of Horrors - 3.5 stars
Scooby Doo And The Goblin King - 3.5 stars
Salvador - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Nuttiest Nutcracker - 1.5 stars
Traces Of Red - 1.5 stars
Destiny Turns on the Radio - 2.0 stars
Once Upon A Crime - 2.0 stars
Babes In Toyland - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Arnold Schwarzenegger - 5 times - show films
Kim Cattrall - 5 times - show films
Pierce Brosnan - 4 times - show films
Olivia Williams - 4 times - show films
Timothy Hutton - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Roman Polanski - 4 times - show films
John McTiernan - 3 times - show films
Louis Morneau - 3 times - show films
Edward Zwick - 2 times - show films
Tony Leech - 2 times - show films