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James Adam Belushi (born June 15, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is best known for his title role of James "Jim" Orenthal on the American sitcom According to Jim. He is the younger brother of the late comic actor John Belushi. Belushi was born in Chicago to Adam Anastos Belushi, an Albanian from Qytezë, Korçë, and... more

James Adam Belushi (born June 15, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is best known for his title role of James "Jim" Orenthal on the American sitcom According to Jim. He is the younger brother of the late comic actor John Belushi.

Belushi was born in Chicago to Adam Anastos Belushi, an Albanian from Qytezë, Korçë, and Agnes Demetri (Samaras) Belushi, who was born in Ohio from Greek-Albanian immigrants from Korçë. He was raised in Wheaton, a Chicago suburb, along with his three siblings: Older brother John, older sister Marian, and younger brother Billy. After graduating from Wheaton Central High School, Jim Belushi attended the College of DuPage, and graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a degree in Speech and Theatre Arts.

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Trading Places
(1983)
Comedy
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
John Landis
Cast:
Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott, Ralph Bellamy
7.5
88%
69
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The Ghost Writer
(2010)
Mystery, Thriller
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.
Runtime:
128 min
Director:
Roman Polanski
Cast:
Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Jon Bernthal, Kim Cattrall, Kim Cattrall
7.2
84%
77
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Wag the Dog
(1997)
Comedy, Drama
During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Barry Levinson, David Koechner
Cast:
Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson
7.1
86%
73
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Little Shop of Horrors
(1986)
Comedy, Horror
Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing f...
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Frank Oz
Cast:
Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, Levi Stubbs
7.1
90%
81
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Last Action Hero
(1993)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Danny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to save the life of his hero and new friend.
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
John McTiernan
Cast:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O'Brien, Charles Dance, Bridgette Wilson
6.4
40%
44
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Thief
(1981)
Action, Crime, Thriller
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.
Runtime:
123 min
Director:
Michael Mann
Cast:
James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, Jim Belushi, Robert Prosky
7.4
94%
78
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Hoodwinked!
(2005)
Animation, Comedy, Crime, Family
Little Red Riding Hood: A classic story, but there's more to every tale than meets the eye. Before you judge a book by its cover, you've got to flip through the pages. In the re-telling of this classic fable, the story begins at the end of the tale and winds its way back. Chief Grizzly and Detective Bill Stork investigate a domestic di...
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
Todd Edwards, Tony Leech, Cory Edwards
Cast:
Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close, Jim Belushi, Patrick Warburton, Anthony Anderson
6.4
46%
45
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Salvador
(1986)
Drama, History, Thriller
A second-rate journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.
Runtime:
123 min
Director:
Oliver Stone
Cast:
James Woods, Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage
7.4
89%
69
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Red Heat
(1988)
Action, Crime
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Walter Hill
Cast:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Belushi, Jim Belushi, Peter Boyle
6.1
67%
61
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Return to Me
(2000)
Comedy, Romance
It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob, a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he's smitten instantly not with his date but with the sharp-witted waitress. Everything seems to be going great until an unbelievable truth is revealed, one that could easily break both of their hearts...
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Bonnie Hunt
Cast:
David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O'Connor, Robert Loggia, Jim Belushi
6.9
62%
54
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Jingle All the Way
(1996)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is so...
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Brian Levant
Cast:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Phil Hartman, Sinbad, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad
5.7
20%
34
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K-9
(1989)
Action, Comedy, Crime
The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Officer Lewis), who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to...
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Rod Daniel
Cast:
Jim Belushi, Jim Belushi, Mel Harris, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Neill
6.0
22%
44
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Show Me a Hero
(2015)
Crime, Drama, History
Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers' worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the city in a bitter battle fueled by fear, racism, murder and politics.
Runtime:
300 min
Director:
Paul Haggis
Cast:
Oscar Isaac, Alfred Molina, Winona Ryder, Catherine Keener, Jim Belushi
8.1
N/A
N/A
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About Last Night...
(1986)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Edward Zwick
Cast:
Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Jim Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins, George DiCenzo
6.3
61%
70
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Wonder Wheel
(2017)
Drama
The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwr...
Runtime:
101 min
Cast:
Kate Winslet, Juno Temple, Justin Timberlake, Jim Belushi, Max Casella
6.2
30%
45
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Curly Sue
(1991)
Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into believing she backed her Mercedes into Bill, they're only hoping for a free meal. But Grey is touched, and...
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
John Hughes
Cast:
Jim Belushi, Alisan Porter, Kelly Lynch, John Getz, Steve Carell
5.9
13%
N/A
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The Fury
(1978)
Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
A government agent is determined to come to his son's rescue, when a sinister official kidnaps him to harness his extremely powerful psychic abilities.
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Brian De Palma
Cast:
Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Amy Irving, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning
6.3
77%
64
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Jumpin' Jack Flash
(1986)
Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout, she remains in contact with this mysterious person, wh...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Penny Marshall
Cast:
Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Jonathan Pryce, John Wood, Annie Potts
5.9
27%
52
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Mr. Destiny
(1990)
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction
Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his fate by offering him that alternative life he always dreamed of. But as Burrows embarks on ...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
James Orr
Cast:
Jim Belushi, Michael Caine, Linda Hamilton, Jon Lovitz, Rene Russo
6.4
38%
34
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Canadian Bacon
(1995)
Comedy
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Michael Moore
Cast:
John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, Rip Torn
5.9
13%
N/A
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Only the Lonely
(1991)
Comedy, Romance
Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna , whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the relationship, and Danny and Theresa must either overcome her objections or give up the romance.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Chris Columbus
Cast:
John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Quinn, Kevin Dunn
6.4
64%
47
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The Whole Truth
(2016)
Drama, Thriller
A defense attorney works to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Courtney Hunt
Cast:
Keanu Reeves, Renée Zellweger, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jim Belushi
6.2
29%
46
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Who's Harry Crumb?
(1989)
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Paul Flaherty
Cast:
John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson, Barry Corbin
5.9
27%
44
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Gang Related
(1997)
Action, Crime, Thriller
Two corrupt cops have a successful, seemingly perfect money making scheme- they sell drugs that they seize from dealers, kill the dealers, and blame the crimes on street gangs. Their scheme is going along smoothly until they kill an undercover DEA agent posing as a dealer, and then try to cover-up their crime.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Jim Kouf
Cast:
Jim Belushi, Tupac Shakur, Lela Rochon, Dennis Quaid, James Earl Jones
6.5
53%
N/A
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The Principal
(1987)
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violen...
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Christopher Cain
Cast:
Jim Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Wright, J.J. Cohen
6.3
50%
37
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Taking Care of Business
(1990)
Comedy
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Arthur Hiller
Cast:
Jim Belushi, Charles Grodin, Anne De Salvo, Loryn Locklin, Stephen Elliott
6.5
29%
42
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The Man with One Red Shoe
(1985)
Action, Comedy
A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Stan Dragoti
Cast:
Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Lori Singer, Charles Durning, Carrie Fisher
5.7
47%
31
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Snow Dogs
(2002)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Brian Levant
Cast:
James Coburn, James Coburn, Sisqó, Nichelle Nichols, Nichelle Nichols
5.2
25%
29
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The Wild
(2006)
Animation, Family
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.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Steve 'Spaz' Williams
Cast:
Kiefer Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Janeane Garofalo, Eddie Izzard
5.2
44%
47
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Joe Somebody
(2001)
Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
When underappreciated video specialist Joe Scheffer is brutally humiliated by the office bully Mark McKinney in front of his daughter, Joe begins a quest for personal redemption. He proceeds by enduring a personal make-over and takes martial arts lessons from a B-action star. As news spreads of his rematch with Mark, Joe suddenly finds...
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
John Pasquin
Cast:
Tim Allen, Julie Bowen, Kelly Lynch, Greg Germann, Jim Belushi
5.5
40%
42
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Home Sweet Hell
(2015)
Comedy, Drama
Mona and Don’s seemingly perfect suburban bliss is disrupted by a sexy extortionist and Mona will stop at nothing, including killing the competition, to keep her little slice of heaven.
Runtime:
98 min
5.4
N/A
22
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Underdog
(2007)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers -- a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.
Runtime:
81 min
Director:
Frederik Du Chau
Cast:
Jim Belushi, Jason Lee, Patrick Warburton, John Slattery, Peter Dinklage
4.8
16%
37
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Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special
(2015)
Comedy, TV Movie
A three-hour prime-time special celebrating SNL '​s fortieth year on the air.
Runtime:
154 min
Director:
Don Roy King
Cast:
Fred Armisen, Dan Aykroyd, Alec Baldwin, Vanessa Bayer, Candice Bergen
8.2
N/A
N/A
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Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
(2014)
Animation, Family, Fantasy
Dorothy wakes up in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Tin Man and Glinda from a devious new villain, the Jester. Wiser the owl, Marshal Mallow, China Princess and Tugg the tugboat join Dorothy on her latest magical journey through the colorful landscape of Oz ...
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Dan St. Pierre
Cast:
Lea Michele, Dan Aykroyd, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Dancy, Jim Belushi
5.6
16%
25
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Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie
(2017)
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
When their trip to San Lorenzo takes a turn for the worst, Arnold and his classmate’s only hope of getting home is retracing the dangerous path that led to Arnold's parents' disappearance.
Runtime:
81 min
Cast:
Francesca Smith, Anndi McAfee, Mason Vale Cotton, Benjamin Flores Jr.
7.7
N/A
N/A
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Real Men
(1987)
Comedy, Science Fiction
Jim Belushi plays a super-competent secret agent on the trail of Russian thugs. John Ritter plays a milquetoast dad who gets mixed up in the caper. The story follows their adventures over the course of a week, in which Ritter develops some guts and Belushi gets in touch with his sensitive side.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Dennis Feldman
Cast:
Jim Belushi, John Ritter, Barbara Barrie, Mark Herrier
6.2
N/A
N/A
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Sahara
(1995)
Action, Adventure, TV Movie, War
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, but the well is a goal of an entire Ger...
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Cast:
Jim Belushi, Jerome Ehlers, Mark Lee, Michael Massee, Robert Wisdom
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Wild Palms
(1993)
Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
A multi-national corporation attempts to take over America while small pockets of resistance hold out against rampant technology.
Runtime:
300 min
Director:
Peter Hewitt, Kathryn Bigelow, Phil Joanou, Keith Gordon
Cast:
Jim Belushi, Dana Delany, Kim Cattrall
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
(2008)
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Mystery
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy must go into the underworld ruled by the Goblin King in order to stop a mortal named The Amazing Krudsky who wants power and is a threat to their pals, Fred, Velma and Daphne.
Runtime:
75 min
Director:
Joe Sichta
Cast:
Jim Belushi, Casey Kasem, Grey DeLisle, Mindy Cohn, Wayne Knight
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Once Upon a Crime
(1992)
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married couples, including Julian and Phoebe, who are traveling with a lost dog they plan to return to its wealthy owner for a large reward. But, when the dog's mistress is murdered, the travelers become the prime suspects, and Inspector Bonnard is d...
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Eugene Levy
Cast:
John Candy, Jim Belushi, Cybill Shepherd, Sean Young, Richard Lewis
5.8
N/A
N/A