The Commitments
1991 · 118 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 40,283 VOTES · DIR. Alan Parker
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,969 lines
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00:00:28 Ha-ha!
00:05:16 so stay in the groove.
00:09:31 Yeh have the wrong Rabbitte!
00:14:46 He's interviewing himself!
00:19:31 # I
00:24:36 A medical student. He's not like the rest of us.
00:30:25 This is Jimmy.
00:34:33 One, two, three, four!
00:40:12 Mr Rabbitte, you've been collecting unemployment benefit for two years.
00:45:47 - # I said sigh sometimes - # Yeah, yeah, yeah
00:50:30 Are yeh decent? We're comin' out!
00:54:48 # Goodbye, goodbye
01:00:24 Don't get hung up on anythang.
01:05:26 I knew it! I always said...! And you, yeh malignant little bastard! I knew it!
01:09:07 # At the dark end of the street
01:15:02 And there's these three girls with the band.
01:19:23 Jazz is musical wankin'.
01:24:09 - I don't suppose they'll let me park here. - Fuck them. Listen to this.
01:29:06 # All you wanna do is ride around, Sally
01:33:42 # Fandango
01:37:39 Wilson Pickett! Load o' bollix!
01:42:37 Fuckin' take it!
01:48:23 He was playin' with Joe Tex on a North American tour.
01:51:18 # Hey, hey, hey, hey!
Cast & Characters
Robert Arkins
Jimmy Rabbitte
Michael Aherne
Steven Clifford
Angeline Ball
Imelda Quirke
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Natalie Murphy
Dave Finnegan
Mickah Wallace
Bronagh Gallagher
Bernie McGloughlin
Félim Gormley
Dean Fay
Glen Hansard
Outspan Foster
Dick Massey
Billy Mooney
Johnny Murphy
Joey 'The Lips' Fagan
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,969
Dialogue density16.7 lines / min
First line00:00:28
Final line01:51:18
Production Record
DirectorAlan Parker
LanguageEnglish
Budget$12,000,000
Revenue$14,919,570
IMDb votes40,283