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73% Critic Match
The Commitments
“They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.”
7.3 / 10• 1991• 1h 58m•R• English
ComedyDramaMusic
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Robert Arkins
Jimmy Rabbitte
Lead
Michael Aherne
Steven Clifford
Angeline Ball
Imelda Quirke
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Natalie Murphy
Dave Finnegan
Mickah Wallace
Bronagh Gallagher
Bernie McGloughlin
FG
Félim Gormley
Dean Fay
Glen Hansard
Outspan Foster
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Alan Parker's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Commitments is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
