The Commitments (1991)

R08/14/1991Comedy, Drama, Music1h 58m
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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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Robert Arkins

    Jimmy Rabbitte

  2. Cast 1

    Michael Aherne

    Steven Clifford

  3. Cast 1

    Angeline Ball

    Imelda Quirke

  4. Cast 1

    Maria Doyle Kennedy

    Natalie Murphy

  5. Cast 1

    Dave Finnegan

    Mickah Wallace

  6. Cast 1

    Bronagh Gallagher

    Bernie McGloughlin

  7. Cast 1

    Glen Hansard

    Outspan Foster

  8. Félim Gormley

    Dean Fay

  9. Cast 1

    Johnny Murphy

    Joey 'The Lips' Fagan

"Jimmy" (Robert Arkins) is a bit of a restless, creative, spirit and a man who is bored with the Dublin music scene. To rectify matters, he and his pal "Joey" (Johnny Murphy) - aka 'The Lips" decide to hold auditions to create a band. A band with an unique sound to challenge the prevailing mediocrity. After some frankly hilarious auditions that pitch the tone deaf straight into the arms of the fashion police, the pair manage to assemble ten folks as different as gin and Guinness. It's no easy task moulding these disparate and lively individuals into one coherent unit, but oddly enough - despit...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$12,000,000.00

Revenue $14,919,570.00

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