The band members were cast partly due to their musical ability, and the results are superlative. "The stairs would kill him." The real star of the show is the music - this film spawned two hugely successful soundtrack albums. "You aren't taking that in the lift, are you?" he asks. In the mix is the unique character of the Irish people - at one point Jimmy enters a tenement block and, as he waits for the lift, looks over to see a boy with a horse. The home lives of the band members are depicted warts and all - their private lives set the scene for the inevitable personality clashes that are almost as explosive as the music. North Dublin is presented in all it's glory. The look of the film is gritty and realistic - nothing is glossed over.
He sets out to form a soul band, and assembles a motley crew of musicians and singers, most of whom don't know each other and many of whom can't stand each other. But he dreams of bigger things, namely making it big in the music industry. Jimmy Rabbitte is a working class Dublin lad who's been collecting unemployment benefits for two years. Who needs expensive movie stars when a group of unknowns can light up the screen like this lot? On paper, it sounds like a failure - a cast comprising almost entirely of untrained and untested performers, set in working class Dublin, based on the novella by Roddy Doyle.
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