Original title:
The Commitments
[en]
The Commitments
[en]
They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.
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.
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Music
Country
United Kingdom 
Ireland
United States
Ireland
United States
Budget
$12 000 000
Revenue
$14 919 570
Duration
1 hour 58 minutes
Release status
Released
Actors
Jimmy Rabbitte
Robert Arkins
Steven Clifford
Michael Aherne
Imelda Quirke
Angeline Ball
Natalie Murphy
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Mickah Wallace
Dave Finnegan
Bernie McGloughlin
Bronagh Gallagher
Outspan Foster
Glen Hansard
Dean Fay
Félim Gormley
Joey 'The Lips' Fagan
Johnny Murphy
Billy Mooney
Dick Massey
Movie collection «The Barrytown Trilogy»
The Barrytown Trilogy is an Irish comedy-drama media franchise centered on the Rabbittes, a working-class family from Barrytown, Dublin. It began in 1988 when Beacon Pictures and 20th Century Fox bought the rights to the 1987 novel The Commitments by Roddy Doyle shortly after it was published. The book was successful, as was Alan Parker's 1991 film adaptation. The film received cult status and is regarded as one of the best Irish films ever made. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked the film at number 38 on its list of the "100 best British films of the century", based on votes from 1,000 leading figures of the film industry. A sequel novel, The Snapper, was published in 1990, followed by a film adaptation in 1993. A third novel, The Van, was published and shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, followed by a film adaptation in 1996.
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