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The Commitments

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The Commitments	comment	The Commitments is a 1991 film based on a Roddy Doyle book of the same title, the first in his Barrytown Trilogy, which tells of the adventures of the Rabbitte family, working class residents of north-side Dublin. Set in Dublin in the late 1980s, it tells the story of Jimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed music aficionado who despairs of the Irish music and decides to form his own soul band; the Commitments. Gathering together a motley band of amateur musicians and guided by the mysterious trumpeter Joey "The Lips" Fagan, they set out to bring Soul to Dublin. Hilarity Ensues.
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The Commitments / int_113472aa	type	Miles Gloriosus
The Commitments / int_113472aa	comment	Miles Gloriosus: In the film, Joey claims to have played with Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles and an array of famous soul artists, although he doesn't have much evidence. At the end of the film he disappears, leaving a postcard explaining he is on tour with the long-dead Joe Tex. This is less ambiguous in the novel, where he is able to provide photographs of himself playing with Otis Redding and others and quickly departs at the conclusion because he was tricked into thinking he's impregnated one of the girls, the climax of a sub-plot not included in the film.
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The Commitments / int_13a984c	type	Hopeless Auditionees
The Commitments / int_13a984c	comment	Hopeless Auditionees: A montage (set to "Too Many Fish in the Sea") shows these appearing at Jimmy's door as he's trying to recruit his band. Jimmy asks each one who his/her influences are, then promptly slams the door in his/her face upon receiving their responses: "Barry Manilow," "Sinead O'Connor," "Wings...Bachman-Turner Overdrive?" "U2?" "Billy and the Bollocks". An apparent Boy George wannabe doesn't even get to name his influence. The only one brought in from this round is Dean, the saxophonist, because he says he's influenced by "Clarence Clemons and the guy from Madness."
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The Commitments / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The Commitments / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Did Joey Fagan really play with the greats in America, as he claims? He may or may not be visible on an album cover, his mother confirms his story but it's not clear if she really knows, and he claims he's going on tour with Joe Tex, who is long dead. He also claims that he knows Wilson Pickett and that he'll try to get Pickett to watch a Commitments show; Pickett's limo does come around belatedly, but it's not clear what Joey said to him or if Joey spoke to him at all.
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The Commitments / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Commitments / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: As the manager, Jimmy fits this trope. Except when he kicks Billy's van in frustration and rants at him for leaving the band on extremely short notice.
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The Commitments / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Commitments / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The film has a few shout outs to parts of the novel not included in the adaptation. For example, the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue shows that Bernie has joined a country band called the Brassers and Mickah is the lead singer in a punk group. In the novel, Jimmy, Outspan and Derek start up a country-punk group called the Brassers with Mickah as the lead vocalist.
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The Commitments / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
The Commitments / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: The film essentially demonstrates what happens when you try to get ten Ted Baxters together and start up a band.
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The Commitments / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
The Commitments / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Mickah, the second drummer, who is initially hired as the band's bouncer. Jimmy thinks he ought to be locked up.
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The Commitments / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Commitments / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: In the novel Mickah starts off as a the band's Psycho for Hire bouncer, but later on turns out to be knowledgeable about music, asks to be the new drummer (in the film he was drafted in because nobody else was available) and has his own stage name in mind. At the end of the book he even becomes the lead singer of Jimmy's new group.
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The Commitments / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Commitments / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: According to the Parents' Guide on imdb.com, there are 250 occurrences of "fuck" and its derivatives in this movie.
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The Commitments / int_39f27cae	type	Bedmate Reveal
The Commitments / int_39f27cae	comment	Bedmate Reveal: To the strains of the theme from Shaft, no less.
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The Commitments / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Commitments / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Instead of signing a deal with Eejit Records, the Commitments are no more after isolated arguments come together and escalate quickly into a massive band meltdown. But on the plus side, most of the ex-Commitments are revealed to be doing well after the breakup — possible exceptions Outspan and Derek, while reduced to busking, at least appear to be happy, and have mended their briefly-fractured friendship. And Jimmy, even if he no longer has a band to manage, is left with some good memories. And may or may not be in a relationship with Natalie.
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The Commitments / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
The Commitments / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: In the book, lead singer Deco was described as handsome (if still obnoxious), but in the film he's portrayed as a Fat Bastard. His actor Andrew Strong, like the rest of the cast, was chosen only for the musical talent even if he didnâ€™t resemble the description in the book.
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The Commitments / int_4f40039e	type	All Drummers Are Animals
The Commitments / int_4f40039e	comment	All Drummers Are Animals: Mickah "Don't Fuck With Me" Wallace, who started off as the band's bouncer. His predecessor, Billy Mooney, even had "the Animal" for his stage name and cited the original Animal as his main influence.
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The Commitments / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
The Commitments / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Joey Fagan. He's old enough to be everyone else's "da", and looks every bit like a guy nearing 50 with his weather-beaten face, but his soft-spoken charm wins over the band's three female singers â€” he's seen kissing one of them, has sex with another, and at least gets the last one, who's engaged to a rather boring man, flirtatious with him. Then again, in the novel Imelda explains that she and the other girls had a bet on to see who could get it on with him first. Downplayed with Deco in the movie. Despite being a Fat Bastard, he has fangirls due to him being the frontman of the band. However the women who know him personally (Bernie, Imelda, and Natalie) hate him and find him disgusting.
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The Commitments / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
The Commitments / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": In-universe. Declan Cuffe doesn't like using his given name onstage — it has to be Deco.
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The Commitments / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
The Commitments / int_51300dbf	comment	Downplayed with Deco in the movie. Despite being a Fat Bastard, he has fangirls due to him being the frontman of the band. However the women who know him personally (Bernie, Imelda, and Natalie) hate him and find him disgusting.
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The Commitments / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
The Commitments / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Everyone at the end of the film, even the normally-tight Outspan and Derek. They become friends again in the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue.
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The Commitments / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
The Commitments / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Mickah. (That's him in the white tank top above).
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The Commitments / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Commitments / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Both the novel and the film depict late 80s/1990 Dublin as a broken-down, poverty-stricken, cultural wasteland of a place, with very little going on in the music scene, which is why The Commitments are able to make such an impact. In reality, late 80s Dublin had an extremely energetic music scene and a quite extensive network of income support schemes enabling young musicians to support themselves, although almost all the bands of the period sounded more or less like U2. By the time the film came out, U2 were the biggest band in the world and Dublin was regarded as extremely hip, but you'd never know it from the film.
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The Commitments / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
The Commitments / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: a bunch, but notably this:
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The Commitments / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Commitments / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Thanks to the involvement of Roddy Doyle, the film is generally well-regarded by fans of the novel, even though it does alter the ending a bit.
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The Commitments / int_5c059fbd	type	Twin Telepathy
The Commitments / int_5c059fbd	comment	Twin Telepathy: Jimmy's twin sisters (who made their first appearance in the second book of the trilogy) have this going on..
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The Commitments / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Commitments / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Joey, of all people.
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The Commitments / int_60f92ddd	type	Oireland
The Commitments / int_60f92ddd	comment	Oireland: Alan Parker leaned on this trope fairly heavily in the film, depicting inner-city Dublin as a semi-feral and almost Victorian slum in which people routinely took their horse up in a lift. This was not present in the book, and it's not present in subsequent adaptations of Roddy Doyle's books.
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The Commitments / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Commitments / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Lampshaded. Deco is such an obnoxious, unpleasant human being but also an amazing singer. Joey comes across as an eccentric religious nut who rides a scooter—but it turns out he knows his stuff.
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The Commitments / int_69204ab8	type	Hired for Their Looks
The Commitments / int_69204ab8	comment	Hired for Their Looks: In-universe Imelda was chosen as a back-up singer for this reason, although she turns out to be pretty talented like the other girls (justified because her actress Angeline Ball was hired for her singing ability). In the film, Bernie is the first of the women to be approached to join the band, though in the hope that she will bring in Imelda (because of her looks) who is a friend of hers; in the novel, Imelda is approached first and she recruits the other two, and all three are considered "foxy chicks" by the group's male members.
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The Commitments / int_6a6c1f35	type	The Power of Rock
The Commitments / int_6a6c1f35	comment	The Power of Rock: Well, the Power of Soul in this case.
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The Commitments / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Commitments / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: While the film has a "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, the book ends with Jimmy, Outspan, Derek and Mickah getting together to form a new country-punk group a couple of weeks later, unperturbed by the breakup of the Commitments and planning to recruit several of the other Commitments for their new band. However, in The Snapper Jimmy has started to try his luck as a DJ.
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The Commitments / int_72cc2b00	type	The Dividual
The Commitments / int_72cc2b00	comment	The Dividual: Jimmy's younger twin sisters (named Linda and Tracy in the novel), who are always together, and talk in unison.
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The Commitments / int_7a0f9ab6	type	The Pete Best
The Commitments / int_7a0f9ab6	comment	The Pete Best: In-universe. Ray, the hammy lead singer of Outspan and Derek's earlier band, And And And. Jimmy makes it clear that he doesn't like Ray, and when Outspan and Derek tell Ray he's out, he takes it surprisingly well, saying he was planning to go solo anyway.
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The Commitments / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
The Commitments / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: The video store where the group watch a film of James Brown, has a promotion on this movie's director, Alan Parker films. While the band are waiting for Billy to arrive for their photoshoot, Mickah Wallace sings a (slightly altered) line of the title song from the movie Fame...which was directed by Alan Parker.
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The Commitments / int_83445b04	type	Pun
The Commitments / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: When the band are traveling in a chip van, some passers-by ask if they have any rock salmon. They reply "Sorry, we only have soul!" Get it... sole/soul...
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The Commitments / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
The Commitments / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Though the film was released in 1991, 80s styles hadn't faded just yet. A prime example is Dean's fabulous pompadour-mullet.
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The Commitments / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
The Commitments / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: EVERYBODY in the Commitments. Except Joey. And maybe Steven, who is portrayed as not only the smartest, but also the most religious of the band. He does get a good share of F-words in, though.
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The Commitments / int_9d838f1b	type	Right on Queue
The Commitments / int_9d838f1b	comment	Right on Queue: The scene in which Jimmy recruits the band ends with one guy who wasn't auditioning. He just saw everyone else lined up and assumed they were selling drugs.
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The Commitments / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Commitments / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Despite the notable absence of Wilson Pickett, everyone seems thrilled at their performance after their final encore. Then the simmering tensions boil over and all hell breaks loose among almost all band members. Except Steven, that is, as he watches the band disintegrate before his eyes, and Jimmy, who's busy talking to the guy from Eejit Records, only to find that he no longer has a band to present to the label.
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The Commitments / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
The Commitments / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Bernie, though as the novel confirms, this is short for Bernadette (and is a common nickname for Bernadette in Ireland).
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The Commitments / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Commitments / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Outspan Foster. In the novel, his real first name is Liam, but he's strictly referred to as Outspan in the film.
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The Commitments / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
The Commitments / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Deco, for obvious reasons. By the end of the film, it becomes clear that most members of the band can barely tolerate each other.
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The Commitments / int_aa8d0ef0	type	Spell My Name with a "The"
The Commitments / int_aa8d0ef0	comment	Spell My Name with a "The": Necessary because, as Jimmy explains, "All the best Sixties bands started with a 'The'".
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The Commitments / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Commitments / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Most characters (the entire population of Dublin, if Roddy Doyle's writing is to be believed), but Jimmy is almost the personification of this trope.
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The Commitments / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
The Commitments / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Played straight, showing where every band member ended up.
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The Commitments / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Commitments / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Whenever any of the women sings the lead instead of Deco, he sits at the edge of the stage and sulks. He also brags to the others that he has fans, and announces to the crowd at one point, "I hope you likes me group!"
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The Commitments / int_bc5ddda5	type	Thematic Series
The Commitments / int_bc5ddda5	comment	Thematic Series: The book was part of an actual trilogy with The Snapper and The Van (and much later, The Deportees and The Guts). Due to rights issues, the films only form a very loose trilogy with names in the latter two films changed and the only common link being Colm Meaney as the father of the main family.
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The Commitments / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Commitments / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: "WE'RE NOT YER BLEEDIN' GROUP, RIGHT!" Also featured in this exchange:
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The Commitments / int_be977433	type	Good-Times Montage
The Commitments / int_be977433	comment	Good-Times Montage: To the strains of "Nowhere to Run," the members of the newly formed Commitments are shown rehearsing individually, all enjoying themselves and soaking up soul music. In particular, the girls are shown laughing and practicing their dance moves in the street amid a maze of hanging laundry. When the band first assembles, there's a short montage set to "Destination Anywhere" as they are shown hanging out in a pub together, then having a band meeting on board a train.
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The Commitments / int_c3debc8e	type	V-Sign
The Commitments / int_c3debc8e	comment	V-Sign: Roughly half the band is giving the camera the offensive version of this on the poster, except for Steven (in keeping with his well-mannered character), Jimmy (who's got his hands in the air rather like Bruce Springsteen), two of of the women, Outspan (who's throwing the horns, in keeping with his guitar player personality) and Joey, who's just smiling and looking relaxed.
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The Commitments / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
The Commitments / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: Billy threatens Deco with this treatment.
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The Commitments / int_c75df49a	comment	While the band are waiting for Billy to arrive for their photoshoot, Mickah Wallace sings a (slightly altered) line of the title song from the movie Fame...which was directed by Alan Parker.
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The Commitments / int_cd3703a2	comment	Genre Mashup: Jimmy's aforementioned new band in the novel, which combines Punk Rock with traditional Irish country music.
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The Commitments / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: The film, while pretty edgy itself in terms of language as explained under Cluster F-Bomb, removes every character from the novel's casual use of the N-word.
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The Commitments / int_d9ef7393	comment	Nobody Loves the Bassist: In the novel, Derek never quite becomes as skilled as the other musicians in the group. In the film, almost all of the main cast members were talented musicians, so the trope is less prevalent, but he briefly falls out with Outspan over it during the massive band meltdown that takes place backstage during their last gig.
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The Commitments / int_dbfe8427	type	Intercourse with You
The Commitments / int_dbfe8427	comment	Intercourse with You: Jimmy explains that nearly all soul music fits this trope.
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The Commitments / int_e18675e6	type	Word Salad Lyrics
The Commitments / int_e18675e6	comment	Word Salad Lyrics and Word Salad Philosophy: The lyrics of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" are laughed at in the last few lines of the film:
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The Commitments / int_eb6912	type	Pretty Fly for a White Guy
The Commitments / int_eb6912	comment	Pretty Fly for a White Guy: In the novel, Joey rages about black jazz musicians who he thinks are betraying their race by playing "wanker's music" to white audiences and proclaims that his greatest regret is not being born black. The band are also concerned that they might be "too white" to play soul. Jimmy allays their fears thus:
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The Commitments / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Commitments / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: A lot of the characters come across this way, but Deco stands out in particular. Deco sees himself as the star of the band, accidentally-on-purpose pushes the girls aside while singing Otis Redding's "Mr. Pitiful" at the band's first gig, makes lewd and crude jokes and remarks, especially in front of the girls, and generally enjoys doing things to get a rise out of people. Despite his size, he's generally all mouth and no fists, and he does meet his match when he gets beaten to a pulp by the much smaller Mickah during the final band meltdown.
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The Commitments / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
The Commitments / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: An odd one in the "Nowhere to Run" sequence. The shot, which starts with three dangling pig carcasses in the butcher shop where bassist Derek is practicing, transitions to Natalie, Bernie, and Imelda as they practice singing and dancing outdoors.
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The Commitments / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Commitments / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Ironically enforced in the film as a "One James Limit." In the novel, the keyboardist's name is James Clifford. But since Jimmy (Rabbitte) is a nickname for James, the keyboardist was renamed Steven Clifford.
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The Commitments / int_ee7fca3d	type	Silver Fox
The Commitments / int_ee7fca3d	comment	Silver Fox: All three of the girls seem to think so about Joey. In the novel, it's revealed it was all part of a joke the three were playing.
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The Commitments / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
The Commitments / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Sharon only makes a brief appearance, especially in the book, but she takes centre stage in The Snapper.
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