The Commitments (Blu-ray) R
They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 30, 2016
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Arkins, Andrew Strong, Angeline Ball, Bronagh Gallagher & Colm Meaney | |
Performer: | Sean Hughes, Phelim Drew, Andrea Corr, Glen Hansard & Maria Doyle Kennedy | |
Directed by | Alan Parker | |
Edited by | Gerry Hambling | |
Screenplay by | Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais & Roddy Doyle | |
Produced by | Roger Randall-Cutler & Lynda Myles | |
Director of Photography: | Gale Tattersall |
Entertainment Reviews:
Does a remarkable job of balancing a feel of lower-class life with the sheer exuberance the music brings.
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Combustible Celluloid
Director Alan Parker's story of a band of young Dubliners playing American '60s soul is fresh, well-executed and original.
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Variety
...An infectious little movie....Robust performances...
USA Today
Rating: 4/5 --
Joyous '90s musical-drama has lots of profanity.
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Common Sense Media
[With] a stirring soundtrack and exuberant performances.
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Rating: 2.5/4 --
Memorable, lingering in one's mind after it has ended. Perhaps, in the end, it's a tad wiser than it initially lets on.
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TheBluFile.com
...A group of talented newcomers....A hyperkinetic jumble, filling the air with song...
New York Times
Product Description:
Alan Parker's THE COMMITMENTS, based on Roddy Doyle's buoyant debut novel, follows the enjoyable travails of a band cobbled together by young Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins), whose vision is to bring soul music to Dublin. After putting an ad in the local paper, Jimmy assembles an unlikely group of musicians who, though nervous, raw, and rough, make music that speaks to something very near the heart of their audience of curious kids and sharp-tongued, sarcastic relatives. As the band nears its big break, egos clash and expectations of fame and fortune start to tear them apart, forcing Jimmy to fight desperately to keep them together.
THE COMMITMENTS bubbles over with life, largely on the strength of the young, mostly unknown cast. Andrew Strong shines in the role of the lead singer exuding a volatile and irresistible charisma as he transforms rapidly from an unsure adolescent into an egotistical spotlight hogger. Colm Meaney contributes a hilarious cameo as Jimmy's father (a role that would expand in two later film adaptations of Doyle novels, THE SNAPPER and THE VAN). Pumped along by killer 1960s soul tunes and crackling throughout with quick-witted dialogue, THE COMMITMENTS is an effervescent, affecting tour through working-class Dublin.
THE COMMITMENTS bubbles over with life, largely on the strength of the young, mostly unknown cast. Andrew Strong shines in the role of the lead singer exuding a volatile and irresistible charisma as he transforms rapidly from an unsure adolescent into an egotistical spotlight hogger. Colm Meaney contributes a hilarious cameo as Jimmy's father (a role that would expand in two later film adaptations of Doyle novels, THE SNAPPER and THE VAN). Pumped along by killer 1960s soul tunes and crackling throughout with quick-witted dialogue, THE COMMITMENTS is an effervescent, affecting tour through working-class Dublin.
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