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The Commitments

The Commitments

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 14, 1991

Runtime

1h 58m

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Music

User Score

73%

Original Title

The Commitments

Production Companies

Beacon Pictures, Beacon Communications, First Film Company, Dirty Hands Productions

Director

Alan Parker

Budget

$12,000,000

Revenue

$14,919,570

Description

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.