Before Once. Before Sing Street. Before every movie about a scrappy group of musicians coming together to form a band…
There was The Commitments.
And this band had absolutely NO business sounding this good. 😂
This week on The VHS Club, Katie and Nat are going back to 1991 to revisit The Commitments, Alan Parker’s musical comedy-drama about an ambitious young manager who decides Dublin needs something it apparently didn't know it needed:
Soul music.
He assembles a group of working-class Dublin musicians, names them The Commitments, and attempts to turn them into the hardest-working band in Ireland.
There’s just one small problem: they can barely stand each other.
We’re talking about:
- The absolutely incredible performances
- How a bunch of young musicians became The Commitments
- Dublin, soul music, and the movie’s very Irish sense of humor
- A soundtrack packed with classics like “Mustang Sally” and “Try a Little Tenderness”
- A band held together by approximately zero emotional stability
- The stories behind the movie and its unusual casting process
- Why The Commitments became such a beloved cult classic
- And, most importantly: Is this one of the greatest fictional movie bands ever?
Plus, we’ll have behind-the-scenes trivia, favorite moments, questionable decisions, tangents, and all the nostalgia you’d expect from The VHS Club.
Tater Tots: Did you grow up with The Commitments, or is this your first time joining the “World’s Hardest Working Band”?
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