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Mood:
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- Music BandUnlikely PartnersDesire for FameEgo ClashRise and FallFriendshipAmbitionArtists and Showbiz more...
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- ComedyDramaMusicIndependent
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- 20th Century90s
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- EuropeIrelandUrban Ghetto
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- Irreverent Humor
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- Ensemble Cast
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The Commitments, 1991
English
Ireland, UK, USA
Profile of The Commitments
The mood of The Commitments is bittersweet, captivating, and contemplative. The plot centers around an ego clash, unlikely partners, and the desire for fame. It features irreverent humor. The Commitments is a drama, comedy, and independent movie. Stylistically, it stars an ensemble cast. In approach, it is realistic. The Commitments is set in Ireland. It happens in the 1990s. The musical score is soul and blues. The Commitments is based on a book. The movie is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes drugs/alcohol and profanity.
Summary of The Commitments
Alan Parker's THE COMMITMENTS, based on Roddy Doyle's buoyant debut novel, follows the enjoyable travails of a band cobbled together by young Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins), whose vision is to bring soul music to Dublin. After putting an ad in the local paper, Jimmy assembles an unlikely group of musicians who, though nervous, raw, and rough, make music that speaks to something very near the heart of their audience of curious kids and sharp-tongued, sarcastic relatives. As the band nears its big break, egos clash and expectations of fame and fortune start to tear them apart, forcing Jimmy to fight desperately to keep them together.
THE COMMITMENTS bubbles over with life, largely on the strength of the young, mostly unknown cast. Andrew Strong shines in the role of the lead singer exuding a volatile and irresistible charisma as he transforms rapidly from an unsure adolescent into an egotistical spotlight hogger. Colm Meaney contributes a hilarious cameo as Jimmy's father (a role that would expand in two later film adaptations of Doyle novels, THE SNAPPER and THE VAN). Pumped along by killer 1960s soul tunes and crackling throughout with quick-witted dialogue, THE COMMITMENTS is an effervescent, affecting tour through working-class Dublin.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Ireland, UK, USA |
| Release date: | 14 August 1991 |
| Runtime: | 118 min |
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- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
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- 11.April.2009
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- by: ScottyT
- ScottyT rated this movie
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