Band on the Run vs The Commitments
The Commitments has the higher audience score (7.3/10 against 6/10 for Band on the Run). Band on the Run is the shorter watch at 1h 28m compared with 1h 58m. The Commitments is the older of the two (1991 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Band on the Run
The Commitments| Band on the Run | The Commitments | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.0/10 | ★ 7.3/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 1991 |
| Length | 1h 28m | 1h 58m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music | Comedy, Drama, Music |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Jeff Hupp | Alan Parker |
| Main cast | Larry Bagby, Matt Perl, Dylan Randazzo, Landon Taverniér, Daniel Blair | Colm Meaney, Bronagh Gallagher, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Angeline Ball, Andrea Corr |
Synopsis
Band on the Run
At the height of the Detroit Garage Rock movement in 1999, a wheelchair-bound father, his musician son and his band bond on a raucous road trip as they war with a rival band on the way to the South by Southwest festival.
The Commitments
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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