The Commitments (1991)

Name: The Commitments
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Released: 1991-08-14
Duration: 118 min
Cast: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dave Finnegan

They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.

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.

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Released 1991-08-14 · 118 min · Comedy, Drama, Music

Directed by Alan Parker

Part of The Barrytown Trilogy

Cast

Robert Arkins as Jimmy Rabbitte
Michael Aherne as Steven Clifford
Angeline Ball as Imelda Quirke
Maria Doyle Kennedy as Natalie Murphy
Dave Finnegan as Mickah Wallace
Bronagh Gallagher as Bernie McGloughlin
Félim Gormley as Dean Fay
Glen Hansard as Outspan Foster
Dick Massey as Billy Mooney
Johnny Murphy as Joey 'The Lips' Fagan
Ken McCluskey as Derek Scully
Andrew Strong as Deco Cuffe
Colm Meaney as Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.
Anne Kent as Mrs. Rabbitte
Andrea Corr as Sharon Rabbitte