Movie · The Barrytown Trilogy

The Commitments (1991)

• R
• August 14, 1991
• 1h 58m

• Comedy
• Drama
• Music

“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.

Director

Alan Parker

Writers

Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Roddy Doyle

Starring

Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball