The Commitments

1991 118 min Comedy, Drama, Music

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.

IMDb 7.6 RT 90 Metacritic 73

budget $12,000,000 earnings $14,919,570 return 1.2x

director Alan Parker

writers Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Roddy Doyle

cast