The Commitments

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.

Director

Alan Parker

Screenplay

Ian La Frenais

Screenplay

Dick Clement

Screenplay

Roddy Doyle

Producer

Roger Randall-Cutler

Producer

Lynda Myles

Original Music Composer

Wilson Pickett

Director of Photography

Gale Tattersall