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The Commitments (1991) [R]

Release Date:
August 14, 1991

Original Title:
The Commitments

Alternate Titles:
Camino a la fama
Les Commitments
Los commitments
Loucos Pela Fama
The Commitments
The Commitments - Loucos Pela Fama

Genres:
Comedy | Drama | Music

Production Companies:
Beacon Communications
Beacon Pictures
Dirty Hands Productions
First Film Company

Production Countries:
Ireland | United Kingdom | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  BR: 12  DE: 12  FI: K-7  GB: 15  IE: 15  NL: 12  US: R 

Runtime: 118

They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.

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Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick 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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Art Direction:
Arden Gantly
Mark Geraghty

Casting:
John Hubbard
Ros Hubbard

Co-Producer:
Marc Abraham
Dick Clement
Ian La Frenais

Costume Design:
Penny Rose

Director:
Alan Parker

Director of Photography:
Gale Tattersall

Editor:
Gerry Hambling

Executive Producer:
Tom Rosenberg
Souter Harris
Armyan Bernstein

Line Producer:
David Wimbury

Makeup Supervisor:
Peter Frampton

Novel:
Roddy Doyle

Original Music Composer:
Wilson Pickett

Producer:
Lynda Myles
Roger Randall-Cutler

Production Design:
Brian Morris

Screenplay:
Dick Clement
Ian La Frenais
Roddy Doyle

Set Decoration:
Karen Brookes

Sound:
Tom Perry

Still Photographer:
David Appleby

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