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Director

Alan Parker

Screenplay

Ian La Frenais
Dick Clement
Roddy Doyle

The Commitments 1991

Comedy/ Drama/ Music/

BUDGET - $12,000,000

Status - Released

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.