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.
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Part of The Barrytown Trilogy
3 films
Cast
70 people
Robert Arkins
Jimmy Rabbitte
Also in
Robbie Rents A Room
Life on Mercury
Michael Aherne
Steven Clifford
Angeline Ball
Imelda Quirke
Known for
My Girl 2
The General
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Natalie Murphy
Known for
Orphan Black
The Tudors
Dave Finnegan
Mickah Wallace
Also in
Because We Are Too Many
Bronagh Gallagher
Bernie McGloughlin
Known for
Brassic
You, Me and the Apocalypse
Félim Gormley
Dean Fay
Also in
Poison Pen
Glen Hansard
Outspan Foster
Known for
Once
Cyrano
Dick Massey
Billy Mooney
Johnny Murphy
Joey 'The Lips' Fagan
Known for
Angela's Ashes
Into the West
Ken McCluskey
Derek Scully
Also in
Far and Away
Andrew Strong
Deco Cuffe
Alan Parker Director · Dick Clement Screenplay Ian La Frenais Screenplay
Worldwide gross $15M · Budget $12M · United States release August 14, 1991
Box office
Budget
$12,000,000
Worldwide gross
$14,919,570
Gross vs. budget
1.2×
Production
Beacon Communications
Production
First Film Company
Production
Dirty Hands Productions
Production
20th Century Studios
Studio
Beacon Pictures
Production
United States · United Kingdom · Ireland
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Irish
Release dates
United States · August 14, 1991
Theatrical
Australia
September 27, 1991 · Theatrical
Brazil
March 3, 2005 · TV · TV Record
March 6, 2009 · Physical · Bluray/DVD
Finland
November 1, 1991 · Theatrical
France
August 28, 1991 · Theatrical
February 12, 2021 · Physical · DVD & Blu-Ray
Germany
October 17, 1991 · Theatrical
Greece
July 17, 2025 · Theatrical · Re-Issue
Ireland
October 4, 1991 · Theatrical
Netherlands
February 14, 1992 · Theatrical
January 2, 2003 · Physical · DVD
February 26, 2008 · TV · RTL 8
New Zealand
September 10, 1991 · Theatrical
Türkiye
December 13, 1991 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
October 4, 1991 · Theatrical
September 2, 2024 · Physical · Blu-ray & DVD
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