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The Commitments | 1991 | UK Lobby Card
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The Commitments | 1991 | UK Lobby Card

The Commitments is a 1991 film directed by Alan Parker. It was co-produced by Roger Randall-Cutler and Lynda Myles. The screenplay was co-written by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais and Roddy Doyle based on the 1987 novel The Commitments by Roddy Doyle. The Commitments stars Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher, Glen Hansard, Dick Massey and Johnny Murphy. The film is set around the Northside of Dublin and tells the story of Jimmy Rabbitte, a young music fanatic who aspires to manage an Irish soul band in the tradition of the 1960s African-American recording artists. After placing an advert in a local newspaper he assembles a group of working-class youths to form a soul band called The Commitments. Principle photography took ...