The Commitments
Type
Label
The Commitments
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Rated R
Main title
The Commitments
Medium
electronic resource
Runtime
117
Summary
In the Northside of Dublin, Jimmy Rabbitte aspires to manage the world's greatest band, with only one music in mind: soul. By advertising for applicants in a newspaper and asking around to promising acquaintances, Jimmy holds auditions at his parents' home and assembles a band together. Unlike his idols, Jimmy's band is white. With the help of Joey "The Lips" Fagan, a veteran musician who answers the ad and joins the band and who has unlikely stories about meeting and working with famous musicians, Jimmy begins to whip the members into shape - gradually coming together beautifully onstage, only to have the group fall apart in a clash of egos
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
- Clement, Dick
- hoopla digital
- Hansard, Glen, 1970-
- Ball, Angeline
- Tattersall, Gale
- Doyle, Roddy, 1958-
- Kennedy, Maria Doyle
- Randall-Cutler, Roger
- Gallagher, Bronagh, 1972-
- Myles, Lynda
- Parker, Alan, 1944-
- Strong, Andrew, 1973-
- Gormley, Félim, 1969-
- Finnegan, Dave
- La Frenais, Ian
- Murphy, Johnny
- Hambling, Gerry
- Arkins, Robert
- Aherne, Michael
Subject
Content
Actor
resource.cinematographer
Director
resource.filmeditor
resource.screenwriter
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor19
- Clement, Dick
- hoopla digital
- Hansard, Glen, 1970-
- Ball, Angeline
- Tattersall, Gale
- Doyle, Roddy, 1958-
- Kennedy, Maria Doyle
- Randall-Cutler, Roger
- Gallagher, Bronagh, 1972-
- Myles, Lynda
- Parker, Alan, 1944-
- Strong, Andrew, 1973-
- Gormley, Félim, 1969-
- Finnegan, Dave
- La Frenais, Ian
- Murphy, Johnny
- Hambling, Gerry
- Arkins, Robert
- Aherne, Michael
- Genre4
- Subject8
- Content1
- Actor10
- resource.cinematographer1
- Director1
- resource.filmeditor1
- Producer2
- resource.screenwriter2