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The Commitments
Comedy, Drama, Music
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy charismatic ensemble stories, infectious live performance, and scrappy creative ambition grounded in working-class community life.
- Tone
- warm, playful, uplifting
- Payoff
- amusement, inspiration
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- artistic ambition, friendship, community, class aspiration, creative collaboration
- Setting
- early 1990s, working-class Dublin neighborhood and local music venues
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