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Seen on: 03/13/2009

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The Commitments (1991)

Directed by Alan Parker

Music | Comedy | Drama

Most recently watched by sleestakk

Overview

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.

Rated R | Length 118 minutes

Actors

Alan Parker | Colm Meaney | Andrea Corr | Sharon Corr | Caroline Corr | Jim Corr | Maria Doyle Kennedy | Bronagh Gallagher | Glen Hansard | Anne Kent | Angeline Ball | Eanna MacLiam | Robert Arkins | Michael Aherne | Ger Ryan | Peter Rowen | Rynagh O'Grady | Sean Hughes | Lance Daly | Winston Dennis | Phelim Drew | Dave Finnegan | Félim Gormley | Johnny Murphy | Dick Massey | Ken McCluskey | Michael O'Reilly | Mark O'Regan | Derek Duggan | Larry Hogan | Emily Dawson | Liam Carney | Mikel Murfi | Pat Leavy | Sheila Flitton | Maura O'Malley | John Cronin | Blaise Smith | Ruth Fairclough | Lindsay Fairclough | Eamonn O'Conner | Andrew Strong | Gerard Cassoni | Owen O'Gorman | Eileen Reid | Philip Bredin | Aoife Lawless | Conor Malone | Jezz Bell | Colm MacConiomare | Dave Kane | Kristel Harris | Maria Place | Brian MacAodha | Tricia Smith | Canice William | Patrick Foy | Jody Campbell | Allan Murray | Philomena Kavanagh | Derek Herbert | Michael Bolger | Mick Nolan | Bob Navan | Paddy O'Connor | Bernard Keelan | Ronan Hardiman | Josylen Lyons | Paul Bushnell

Viewing Notes

Thanks to SpoutBlog for tipping me to Glen Hansard’s role in The Commitments. I was unaware so it made for a more than pleasant re-watch of a film I hardly remember from my college days. My g/f at the time would play the OST like all the time that I came to resent the thought of this film and naturally repressed it. Glad to see it now; it’s terrific.

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