Waking Ned Devine

(Fox)

Sweetly cunning Jackie O'Shea and sweetly gullible Michael O'Sullivan are so desperate to learn who among the two-digit populace of their tiny coastal village has won the National Lottery, they even send out invitations to a chicken dinner. Only old Ned Devine fails to show, and our heroes' ploys to separate him from his ticket range from the mordantly hilarious to the tiresome. This Irish tall tale has neither the comic nor the social edge of, say, The Full Monty, but it does sport a pair of genial performances from Ian Bannen and David Kelly.