Movies

September, 1991

Youth, Music and the extraordinary influence of one on the other in recent generations give an enormous charge of energy to The Commitments (Fox). Director Alan Parker, who made the musical Fame more than a decade ago, comes up with another winner in a trenchant adaptation of the novel by Roddy Doyle--all about some Irish slum kids forming a "soul" band in Dublin. Thick brogues may make the dialog rough going for American ears, but everything else about the movie is ringingly clear. Am...