The Commitments

1991 7.3 (558 votes) 1h 58m

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Genres

Comedy Drama Music

Production Companies

Beacon Pictures
Beacon Communications
First Film Company
Dirty Hands Productions

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.