If you liked this movie, you should also see: Time of the Gypsies (1988)Slacker (1991)Do the Right Thing (1989)Diner (1982)Withnail & I (1987)
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick 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.