The Commitments

The Commitments (1991)

They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.

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.

Date of release
1991-08-14
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (634)
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Music
Director
Alan Parker

Casting

  • Robert Arkins — Jimmy Rabbitte
  • Michael Aherne — Steven Clifford
  • Angeline Ball — Imelda Quirke
  • Maria Doyle Kennedy — Natalie Murphy
  • Dave Finnegan — Mickah Wallace
  • Bronagh Gallagher — Bernie McGloughlin
  • Félim Gormley — Dean Fay
  • Glen Hansard — Outspan Foster
  • Dick Massey — Billy Mooney
  • Johnny Murphy — Joey 'The Lips' Fagan
  • Ken McCluskey — Derek Scully
  • Andrew Strong — Deco Cuffe

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