The Commitments

About The Commitments

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's The Commitments is a 1991 comedy music film. Robert Arkins appears as Jimmy Rabbitte, Michael Aherne as Steven Clifford, Angeline Ball as Imelda Quirke, and Maria Doyle Kennedy as Natalie Murphy.

Released in August 1991, it runs 118 minutes. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

Shelv files it under cheerful, rock 'n' roll, ireland, and irish. It streams on Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, and Shout! Factory Amazon Channel in the United States. It scores 7.3 out of 10 from 634 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

Once, Sing Street, and The Wind That Shakes the Barley make useful companions to The Commitments.