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Commitments [2 Discs]

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Released: 2004-03-16

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Commitments [2 Discs] DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Jezz Bell, Michael Bolger, Philip Bredin, Paul Bushnell, Jody Campbell, Liam Carney, Gerard Cassoni, Andrea Corr, Jim Corr, Lance Daly, Emily Dawson, Winston Dennis, Phelim Drew, Derek Duggan, Lindsay Fairclough, Ruth Fairclough, Ronan Hardiman, Kristel Harris, Derek Herbert, Larry Hogan, Sean Hughes, Philomena Kavanagh, Bernard Keelan, Anne Kent, Aoife Lawless, Pat Leavy, Josylen Lyons, Brian Mac Aodha, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Eanna Mac Liam, Conor Malone, Dick Massey, Bob Navan, Mick Nolan, Eamon O'Connor, Paddy O'Connor, Owen O'Gorman, Rynagh O'Grady, Maura O'Malley, Mark O'Regan, Michael O'Reilly, Maria Place, Eileen Reid, Peter Rowen, Ger Ryan, Blaise Smith, Tricia Smith, Sheila Flitton, Patrick Foy, Mikel Murfi, Canice William, Alan Parker, Ros Hubbard, Dave Kane, Alan Murray, John Cronin, John Hubbard, Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Johnny Murphy, Dave Finnegan, Andrew Strong, Bronagh Gallagher, Felim Gormley, Glen Hansard, Kenneth McCluskey, Co

Director(s): Alan Parker

Features:
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Full-length audio commentary by director Alan Parker
"The Commitments: Looking Back" documentary
All-new "Dublin Soul" featurette
Two behind-the-scenes making-of featurettes
Music video "Treat Her Right" with introduction by Alan Parker and Robert Arkins
Two new songs "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and "Taking on the World"
Still photo gallery
Theatrical trailer
TV/radio spots

Commitments [2 Discs] DVD Details

Video:
Theatre Wide-Screen
Audio:
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Dolby Surround (4.0)
Dolby Digital Mono
Language:
English
French
Spanish
Subtitles:
English, Spanish

Running Time: 117
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 2
UPC: 024543112990
Product Code: FOX2221299DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1991
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Commitments [2 Discs] DVD Summary "The Irish are the blacks of Europe, Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland, and the North Siders are the blacks of Dublin .

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so say it loud -- I'm black and I'm proud!" Or so Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins) tells his slightly puzzled friends as he tries to assemble a rhythm & blues show band in a working class community in Dublin in Alan Parker's film The Commitments.

Jimmy is a would-be music business wheeler and dealer, and he's decided what Dublin needs is a top-shelf soul band.

However, top-shelf soul musicians are hard to find in Dublin, so he has to make do with what he can find.

However, after a long round of auditions, Jimmy makes two inspired discoveries: Deco (Andrew Strong), an abrasive and alcoholic streetcar conductor who nevertheless has a voice like the risen ghost of Otis Redding, and Joey "The Lips" Fagan (Johnny Murphy), a horn player who knows soul music backwards and forwards and claims to have played with everyone from Wilson Pickett to Elvis Presley.

Before long, the band -- called the Commitments -- is packing them in at local clubs.

But do they have what it takes to make the big time? Based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, who also co-wrote the screenplay, The Commitments is sparked by fine performances by its young cast and enthusiastic performances of a number of '60s soul classics; the cast, who play their own instruments, reassembled the band for a concert tour after the film became a hit.