The Commitments

1991 • 1h 58m •

Comedy Drama Music

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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.

"They had nothing to lose, they risked it all."

Top Billed Cast

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

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2024-03-14

"Jimmy" (Robert Arkins) is a bit of a restless, creative, spirit and a man who is bored with the Dublin music scene. To rectify matters, he and his pal "Joey" (Johnny Murphy) - aka 'The Lips" decide to hold auditions to create a band. A band with an unique sound to challenge the prevailing mediocrity. After some frankly hilarious auditions that pitch the tone deaf straight into the arms of the fashion police, the pair manage to assemble ten folks as different as gin and Guinness. It's no easy task moulding these disparate and lively individuals into one coherent unit, but oddly enough - despit...