![]() Adaptational Ugliness: In the book, lead singer Deco was described as handsome (if still obnoxious), but in the film he's portrayed as a Fat Bastard.A prime example is Dean's fabulous pompadour-mullet. '80s Hair: Though the film was released in 1991, 80s styles hadn't faded just yet.Gathering together a motley band of amateur musicians and guided by the mysterious trumpeter Joey "The Lips" Fagan, they set out to bring Soul to Dublin. ![]() Set in Dublin in the late 1980s, it tells the story of Jimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed music aficionado who despairs of the Irish music and decides to form his own soul band the Commitments. The Commitments is a 1991 film based on a Roddy Doyle book of the same title, the first in his Barrytown Trilogy, which tells of the adventures of the Rabbitte family, working class residents of north-side Dublin. ![]()
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