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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.Read moreLess
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 story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Robert ArkinsJimmy Rabbitte
Michael AherneSteven Clifford
Angeline BallImelda Quirke
Maria Doyle KennedyNatalie Murphy
Dave FinneganMickah Wallace
Bronagh GallagherBernie McGloughlin
Glen HansardOutspan Foster
Dick MasseyBilly Mooney
Johnny MurphyJoey 'The Lips' Fagan
Ken McCluskeyDerek Scully
Andrew StrongDeco CuffeExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Ian La Frenais
- Director of Photography
- Gale Tattersall
- Producer
- Roger Randall-Cutler
- Original Music Composer
- Wilson Pickett
- Director
- Alan Parker
- Editor
- Gerry Hambling
- Screenplay
- Dick Clement
- Producer
- Lynda Myles
- Screenplay
- Roddy Doyle