Aretha plays the wife of Matt “Guitar” Murphy, one of the former members of the Blues Brothers Band.
The Blues Brothers is about celebrating the power of music as an animating force in our lives.
As a movie critic, though, I wanted to acknowledge Franklin’s role in maybe the best scene in one of my favorite movies: John Landis’ The Blues Brothers.
Blues Brothers 2000 is generally terrible, but Aretha’s scene is a rare highlight.