
Sing Street(2016)
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.


“They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.”
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.

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

Glen Hansard
Outspan Foster
Félim Gormley
Dean Fay

Johnny Murphy
Joey 'The Lips' Fagan

Dick Massey
Billy Mooney
The Commitments is a comedy, drama, music film released in 1991 exploring themes of dublin, ireland, ireland, soul music, band, the barrytown trilogy, wilson pickett. Directed by Alan Parker, it stars Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball. 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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