The Commitments

The Commitments

They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.

R 1991 · 118 min · ★ 7.3 · 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.

Directed by Alan Parker · Written by Ian La Frenais

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