1991 · 118 min · Comedy, Drama, Music
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.
Directed by Alan Parker. Starring Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Dave Finnegan.
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