A would-be music producer from Dublin believes he can make it big in Ireland by promoting a top-rate soul band, so he trawls a working-class neighbourhood and auditions unlikely singers and musicians to put together as a group. Alan Parker's urban comedy, based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, starring Robert Arkins, Andrew Strong, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball and Maria Doyle Kennedy.

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.