“The clothes they wear are all dismally coloured”. “There’s an almost constant use of a word pronounced “fook” or “fewk,” which I take to be some kind of Dublin slang, possibly relating to fish and chips”. “The friendship was bad cos they treated each other like crap.” ” … it portrays the Irish as extremely profane people who do nothing but scream at each other and tell each other to f-off … one hopes this isn’t representative of the entire country.” The Commitments. Furriners on IMDB just don’t get it. Ah, Glen Hansard. You’ll always be Outspan Foster to me. But we do, which is why the original cast of Alan Parker’s brilliantly funny soul-story are coming together in March 2011 for a series of much howled-for reunion gigs. Andrew Strong, Robert Arkins, Angeline Ball, Bronagh Gallagher, Michael Aherne, Glen Hansard, Felim Gormley, Dave Finnegan, Ken McCluskey and Dick Massey … There’s more →