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The Commitments

1991 · 118 min

A lively, funny, and heartfelt ride with great music and a scrappy underdog spirit that makes you want to cheer.

Tagline: They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.
Overview: 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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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: music
friendship
ambition
class
found family
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language strong
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	3
Horror	0
Humour	7
Realism	8
Romance	3
Tension	4
Darkness	3
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: comedy, drama, music
Directed by: Alan Parker
Written by: Ian La Frenais, Roddy Doyle, Dick Clement
Starring: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher, Félim Gormley, Glen Hansard
Music: Wilson Pickett
Cinematography: Gale Tattersall
Runtime: 118 min
Country: United States of America, United Kingdom
Languages: English, Irish

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