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.
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Verdict: Break Even
> Alan Parker (Director)
> Gale Tattersall (Director of Photography)
> Cliff Lanning (Third Assistant Director)
> Dick Clement (Screenplay)
> Ian La Frenais (Screenplay)
> Roddy Doyle (Novel)
> Roddy Doyle (Screenplay)