‘Ballywalter’ starring The Late Late Show host is on BBC One tonight.
Patric Kielty’s debut movie will be on TV screens tonight.
The 2022 film ‘Ballywalter’, which scored a very rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, is a bittersweet comedy drama set in the Northern Irish town.
The movie follows chaotic taxi driver in her 20s, Eileen (Seána Kerslake) who lives at home in Belfast with her irksome mother and pregnant sister.
Every week she takes a booking from Shane (Patrick Kielty), a man in his 40s, bruised by the recent breakdown of his marriage, who is attempting to rebuild himself through stand-up comedy.
Over the course of their journeys, the two lost souls form an unlikely connection and help confront their demons together.
The Irish Independent said together, Kielty and Kerslake ‘created something wonderful, something unique, something that deserves to find an audience’.
Filming a lot of the movie during the Covid-19 pandemic, Kielty previously told JOE.ie that the ‘real difficult part of the film’ was the limits outside socialisation.
“Most people that work on a movie set, not in Covid, do your take, and then you go for a drink and you can become pals.
“For us, the real difficult part of this film was that we would come in and do we’d our bit, you’d go to a hotel, I’d drive back to my house in County Down, we wouldn’t see each other!”
‘Ballywalter’ is airing on BBC One Northern Ireland at 10.40pm.
Here are the other films airing on TV tonight:
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – BBC Three – 7.25pm
The second installment of the popular film series, Larry, the security guard of the museum, must gain access to the museum in order to rescue Jedediah and Octavius, who have been shipped there by mistake.
Gold – TG4 – 10.25pm
The 2016 crime drama stars Matthew McConaughey.
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life – ITV4 – 12.15am
The Monty Python team explore life and its different stages in a satirical way through various people and situations.
Little Women – Film4 – 6.35pm
The original 1994 film follows the lives March sisters during the civil war.
The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol – ITV2 – 3.40pm
The 2011 animation based on the comic books follows the Smurfs through an adaption of Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.
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