The Commitments - 30 years on and still going strong!
It’s a long time ago now (30 years actually) since I sat, not more than two metres across from Angeline Ball, she of The Commitments (Imelda Quirke) fame,...
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The Commitments movie review & film summary (1991)
Alan Parker’s “The Commitments” is a loud, rollicking, comic extravaganza about a rock band from the poorest precincts of North Dublin that decides to play soul music. The organizer of the band is the lean, ingenious Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins), whose suggestion is greeted with puzzlement by his friends. They like soul music, yes, but they don’t particularly identify with it. Rabbitte’s logic is persuasive: “The Irish are the blacks of Europe. Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. North Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin.” The movie is based on a novel by Roddy Doyle, a North ...
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