The Commitments

Plot summary

“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.

Crew

• Alan ParkerDirector
• Dick ClementWriter
• Ian La FrenaisWriter
• Roddy DoyleWriter
• personLynda MylesProducer
• personRoger Randall-CutlerProducer
• Tom RosenbergExecutive producer
• personSouter HarrisExecutive producer
• Armyan BernsteinExecutive producer
• Wilson PickettMusic

Cast

Production companies

• movieBeacon Communications
• movieFirst Film Company
• movieDirty Hands Productions