Les Commitments

Synopsis

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.

Release date

14 Aug 1991

Directed by

Alan Parker

Runtime

1h 58m

Original title

The Commitments

Cast

Robert Arkins

Jimmy Rabbitte

Michael Aherne

Steven Clifford

Angeline Ball

Imelda Quirke

Maria Doyle Kennedy

Natalie Murphy

Dave Finnegan

Mickah Wallace

Bronagh Gallagher

Bernie McGloughlin

FG

Félim Gormley

Dean Fay

Glen Hansard

Outspan Foster

Dick Massey

Billy Mooney

Johnny Murphy

Joey 'The Lips' Fagan

Ken McCluskey

Derek Scully

Andrew Strong

Deco Cuffe