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STILL CRAZY, 1998, Sony Repertory, 97 min, Comedy/Romance/Music, UK. Dir. Brian Gibson. Writers/producers Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais reinvigorate the familiar scenario of “aging rockers struggling with past glories and demons to make a comeback” - turning it into a glorious, hilarious paean to rock ’n’ roll camaraderie and ’70s excess tempered with sweet poignancy. British hard-rock has-beens Strange Fruit - including Stephen Rea, Bruce Robinson and a magnificent Bill Nighy - etch realistic portraits of middle-age rocker revival. THE COMMITMENTS, 1991, 20th Century Fox, 117 min, Comedy/Drama/Music, Ireland, UK, USA. Director Alan Parker teamed with Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais to turn Roddy Doyle’s novella into a rollicking saga of mishap and achingly funny defeats snatched from the jaws of victory. A young hustling Dubliner shapes a ragtag bunch of miscreant Irish kids into a full-blown rock ’n’ soul revue despite their best efforts to self-destruct.

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What is Still Crazy / The Commitments about?: STILL CRAZY, 1998, Sony Repertory, 97 min, Comedy/Romance/Music, UK. Dir. Brian Gibson. Writers/producers Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais reinvigorate the familiar scenario of “aging rockers struggling with past glories and demons to make a comeback” - turning it into a glorious, hilarious paean to rock ’n’ roll camaraderie and ’70s excess tempered with sweet poignancy. British hard-rock has-beens Strange Fruit - including Stephen Rea, Bruce Robinson and a magnificent Bill Nighy - etch realistic portraits of middle-age rocker revival.
THE COMMITMENTS, 1991, 20th Century Fox, 117 min, Comedy/Drama/Music, Ireland, UK, USA. Director Alan Parker teamed with Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais to turn Roddy Doyle’s novella into a rollicking saga of mishap and achingly funny defeats snatched from the jaws of victory. A young hustling Dubliner shapes a ragtag bunch of miscreant Irish kids into a full-blown rock ’n’ soul revue despite their best efforts to self-destruct.