Now, before we get into all the details of how you can watch 'The Commitments' right now, here are some essential information about the Beacon Pictures, Beacon Communications, First Film Company, Dirty Hands Productions drama flick. The Commitments starring Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy has a R rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 58 min. The release date of the movie is August 14th, 1991. The movie received a user score of 73/100 on TMDb, which was calculated from reviews from 577 verified users.
Need a fast recap before watching? Here's the plot: "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."
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The Barrytown Trilogy
The Barrytown Trilogy is an Irish comedy-drama media franchise centered on the Rabbittes, a working-class family from Barrytown, Dublin. It began in 1988 when Beacon Pictures and 20th Century Fox bought the rights to the 1987 novel The Commitments by Roddy Doyle shortly after it was published. The book was successful, as was Alan Parker's 1991 film adaptation. The film received cult status and is regarded as one of the best Irish films ever made. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked the film at number 38 on its list of the "100 best British films of the century", based on votes from 1,000 leading figures of the film industry. A sequel novel, The Snapper, was published in 1990, followed by a film adaptation in 1993. A third novel, The Van, was published and shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, followed by a film adaptation in 1996.
