The Commitments

Jimmy is a would-be music business wheeler and dealer, and he’s decided what Dublin needs is a top-shelf soul band. However, top-shelf soul musicians are hard to find in Dublin, so he has to make do with what he can find. However, after a long round of auditions, Jimmy makes two inspired discoveries: Deco (Andrew Strong),an abrasive and alcoholic streetcar conductor who nevertheless has a voice like the risen ghost of Otis Redding, and Joey “The Lips” Fagan (Johnny Murphy),a horn player who knows soul music backwards and forwards and claims to have played with everyone from Wilson Pickett to Elvis Presley.