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Irish film directed by Alan Parker

This article is about the Irish film. For the American TV film, see Commitments (film).

The Commitments is a musicalcomedy-drama film based on the novel by Roddy Doyle.

It was directed by Alan Parker from a screenplay written by Doyle, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

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Set in the Northside of Dublin, the film tells the story of Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins), a young music fanatic who assembles a group of working-class youths to form a soul band named "The Commitments". The film is the first in a series known as The Barrytown Trilogy, followed by The Snapper () and The Van ().

Producers Lynda Myles and Roger Randall-Cutler acquired the film rights to the novel in , and commissioned Doyle, a first-time screenwriter, to write an adaptation. Doyle spent one year working on the script before Myles brought in veteran screenwriters Clement and La Frenais to help complete it.

Upon reading the novel, Parker signed on