The Commitments
1991/08/14 (US) | Comedy, Drama, Music
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.
Alan Parker
Director
Dick Clement
Screenplay
Ian La Frenais
Screenplay
Roddy Doyle
Screenplay
Lead 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
Glen Hansard
Outspan Foster
Budget
$ 12,000,000
Revenue
$ 14,919,570
Status
Released
Production Company
- Beacon Pictures
- Beacon Communications
- First Film Company
- Dirty Hands Productions
Crews
Lynda Myles
Producer
Roger Randall-Cutler
Producer
Wilson Pickett
Original Music Composer
Gale Tattersall
Director of Photography