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The Commitments
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
1991 · Directed by Alan Parker · 118 min · Comedy · Drama · Music · 18 frames
Tagline
They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.
Crew
- Screenplay: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle
- Cinematography: Gale Tattersall
- Edited by: Gerry Hambling
- Music: Wilson Pickett
- Production design: Brian Morris
- Produced by: Lynda Myles, Roger Randall-Cutler
Cast
- Robert Arkins as Jimmy Rabbitte
- Michael Aherne as Steven Clifford
- Angeline Ball as Imelda Quirke
- Maria Doyle Kennedy as Natalie Murphy
- Dave Finnegan as Mickah Wallace
- Bronagh Gallagher as Bernie McGloughlin
- Félim Gormley as Dean Fay
- Glen Hansard as Outspan Foster
- Dick Massey as Billy Mooney
- Johnny Murphy as Joey 'The Lips' Fagan
Production
- Country: United States of America, United Kingdom
- Language: English, Irish
- Studios: Beacon Communications, First Film Company, Dirty Hands Productions
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Box office: $14,919,570
- Themes: rock 'n' roll, dublin, ireland, ireland, soul music, irish, band, the barrytown trilogy, wilson pickett, cheerful
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