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Region 4 Winners and Losers

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Commitments, The: Special Edition/Gold EditionR1

    There have been a few Region 1 releases of this film:

    My Region 1 20th century Fox version is a 4:3 Pan & Scan affair with a Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack encoded at only 192 kbps (including the extra features). It contains an additional extra in the form of a "CD Sampler", which consists of four very brief sound bites from the soundtrack CD and is generally worthless. It misses out on the following extras found on the Region 4 version:

  • The Making of Alan Parker's Film The Commitments
  • Alan Parker Filmography
  • Teaser Trailer

    There is, however, a more recent two disc Collectors Edition available in Region 1, which features an anamorphically enhanced 1.85:1 transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, and the average bit rate of the disc has been boosted to 8.8 Mbps (compared to 6.4 on the Region 4 version). Unfortunately for Region 4 fans, it also includes the following special features in addition to those found on our release:

  • Commentary by Alan Parker
  • The Commitments: Looking Back - a substantial (over forty minutes long) documentary
  • Dublin Soul: the working class and changing face of Dublin - a twenty minute featurette
  • The Treat Her Right music video which also has an introduction by Alan Parker and Robert Arkins
  • Two Original songs by Andrew Strong and Robert Arkins
  • Still gallery
  • Six TV Spots
  • Four radio spots

    The two disc Region 1 Collectors Edition is much better overall from the extras perspective and would be the obvious purchase option for dedicated fans of the film.