The Commitments (1991)
Directed by Alan Parker · 118 min · Comedy, Drama, Music
43.8 TOPICAL score · #2,376 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
The Commitments (1991, directed by Alan Parker) has a TOPICAL score of 43.8 - ranked 2,376 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on audience and critics, and lowest on historical impact. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Critics: 89% on Rotten Tomatoes · 7.4/10 critics' average · Metacritic 73. Audiences: TMDB 7.3/10 (634 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 27 languages.
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- Critics89% on Rotten Tomatoes · 7.4/10 critics' average · Metacritic 73
- AudienceTMDB 7.3/10 (634 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 1 nomination
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 27 languages
- Still read47,486 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy