The Commitments 1991

The Commitments (1991) is a Comedy and Drama film from the United States in the lookmovie catalog, running 1h 58m. Directed by Alan Parker, it features Robert Arkins and Michael Aherne. Viewers rate it 7.3/10 from 637 votes. 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.