The Commitments

Aug 14, 1991

1h 58m

★ 7.3

They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Music

Production Companies

Beacon Pictures

Beacon Communications

First Film Company

Dirty Hands Productions

The Commitments Trailers

Cast

Jimmy Rabbitte

Robert Arkins

Steven Clifford

Michael Aherne

Imelda Quirke

Angeline Ball

Natalie Murphy

Maria Doyle Kennedy

Mickah Wallace

Dave Finnegan

Bernie McGloughlin

Bronagh Gallagher

Outspan Foster

Glen Hansard

Dean Fay

Félim Gormley

Joey 'The Lips' Fagan

Johnny Murphy

Billy Mooney

Dick Massey

Deco Cuffe

Andrew Strong

Derek Scully

Ken McCluskey

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