The Commitments
1991 · TMDB 7.2
Directed by Alan Parker
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.
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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, re...
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- Runtime
- 118 min
- Released
- 1991-08-14
- Studio
- Beacon Communications
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.2
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Key contributors
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Alan Parker
Director
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Ian La Frenais
Writer
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Dick Clement
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Roddy Doyle
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Robert Arkins
Jimmy Rabbitte
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Michael Aherne
Steven Clifford
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Angeline Ball
Imelda Quirke
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Maria Doyle Kennedy
Natalie Murphy
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Dave Finnegan
Mickah Wallace
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Bronagh Gallagher
Bernie McGloughlin
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Félim Gormley
Dean Fay
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Glen Hansard
Outspan Foster