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.
The Commitments has generally received positive reviews.
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The Commitments was released in 1991 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 29 reviews, giving The Commitments (1991) an average rating of 72%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 83%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 71%. Professional critics were more impressed with The Commitments than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 72%, The Commitments is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1991, which stands at 60%.
Other movies from 1991 with similar scores include films like What About Bob? and Bugsy.
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