The Commitments

"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.

Director: Alan Parker

Cast

Robert Arkins

Jimmy Rabbitte

Michael Aherne

Steven Clifford

Angeline Ball

Imelda Quirke

Maria Doyle Kennedy

Natalie Murphy

Dave Finnegan

Mickah Wallace

Bronagh Gallagher

Bernie McGloughlin

F

Félim Gormley

Dean Fay

Glen Hansard

Outspan Foster