The Commitments

The Commitments

7.3 1991 | 118 min

Comedy Drama Music

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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"They had nothing to lose, they risked it all."

Budget

$12,000,000

Revenue

$14,919,570

Released

August 14, 1991

Popularity

1.7

The Barrytown Trilogy
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The Barrytown Trilogy

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PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Beacon Communications
Beacon Communications
First Film Company
First Film Company
Dirty Hands Productions
Dirty Hands Productions
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Production Countries:

United States of America United Kingdom

Spoken Languages:

English Irish
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