The Commitments

August. 14,1991      R
Rating:
7.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick 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.

Robert Arkins as  Jimmy Rabbitte
Michael Aherne as  Steven Clifford
Angeline Ball as  Imelda Quirke
Maria Doyle Kennedy as  Natalie Murphy
Dave Finnegan as  Mickah Wallace
Bronagh Gallagher as  Bernie McGloughlin
Glen Hansard as  Outspan Foster
Johnny Murphy as  Joey 'The Lips' Fagan
Dick Massey as  Billy Mooney
Andrew Strong as  Deco Cuffe

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