The Commitments

They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Counries: United States of America, United Kingdom

Companies: Beacon Communications, First Film Company, Dirty Hands Productions

Runtime: 118 minutes

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.