The Commitments

• 7.273 Comedy
• 1991-08-14
• 118 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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) Glen Hansard (Outspan Foster) Félim Gormley (Dean Fay) Johnny Murphy (Joey 'The Lips' Fagan) Dick Massey (Billy Mooney)

Director:

Alan Parker

Writer:

Dick Clement Ian La Frenais Roddy Doyle