Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
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.
- dublin
- ireland
- ireland
- soul music
- band
- the barrytown trilogy
- wilson pickett
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Robert Arkins
Jimmy Rabbitte
Michael Aherne
Steven Clifford
Angeline Ball
Imelda Quirke
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Natalie Murphy
- Dave Finnegan — Mickah Wallace
- Bronagh Gallagher — Bernie McGloughlin
- Félim Gormley — Dean Fay
- Glen Hansard — Outspan Foster
- Dick Massey — Billy Mooney
- Johnny Murphy — Joey 'The Lips' Fagan
- Ken McCluskey — Derek Scully
- Andrew Strong — Deco Cuffe
- Colm Meaney — Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.
- Anne Kent — Mrs. Rabbitte
- Andrea Corr — Sharon Rabbitte
- Directed
- Alan Parker
- Written
- Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Roddy Doyle
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 619 ratings
- Studio
- Beacon Communications, First Film Company, Dirty Hands Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
