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Director
Alan Parker
Credits
Producers: Lynda Myles, Roger Randall-Cutler. Writers: Roddy Doyle, Dick Clement, Ian La Franais
Principal Cast
Robert Arkins, Angeline Ball, Colm Meaney, Andrew Strong, Glen Hansard, Johnny Murphy
Category
FeatureClassicMusicLiterature
Voted the best Irish film ever made in a poll sponsored by Jameson Whiskey in 2005, The Commitment’s charts the unlikely journey of Dublin soul band ‘The Commitments’. Ambitious Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins) takes control of his friend’s struggling wedding band and transforms them into ten-piece soul group ‘The Commitments’, recruiting new members from around his working-class community. From these humble beginnings the band achieves fame in Dublin until tensions and inflating egos threaten to scupper their chance at success. Based on the novel from Booker-prize winning author Roddy Doyle’s ‘The Barrytown Trilogy’, The Commitments mixes professional actors and musicians, including ‘The Frames’ Glen Hansard, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and the rousing vocals of Andrew Strong, putting the band’s performances at the heart of the plot. With a shrewd eye for the real attitudes of working class Dublin, The Commitments tells an often comic drama about people struggling to make their way in the world.
118 minutes, Ireland/United Kingdom/United States, 1991, Colour
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 13:00, 20:50
KIDNAPPED 15:15, 18:00
PERFECT DAYS 15:30, 20:30
PNYC: PORTISHEAD – ROSELAND NEW YORK 18.30
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 13:30, 16:00, 18:10, 20:40
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 13:10
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