Filming also took place in Stonybatter with Aughrim St Church being used for the wedding scene. However, the pub which Rita enters is the Dame Tavern which is opposite The Stag's Head. The scene in the pub was shot in The Stag's Head pub on Dame Court in Dublin. The scene in France was filmed in Maynooth, County Kildare, and Pearse Station and Dublin Airport were also used. The scene where Rita runs into her ex Denny and his new wife was filmed in the South Lotts area of Ringsend. 8 Hogan Avenue in Dublin 2 near Grand Canal Dock was used for Rita's house in the film, and one in Burlington Road, Ballsbridge for Bryant's. The rooms used by Bryant as his office and tutorial room were those of the College Historical Society and the University Philosophical Society, respectively and while the building was considerably refurnished, the production chose to leave portraits of Douglas Hyde and Isaac Butt and committee photographs in the former, and a bust of John Pentland Mahaffy in the latter. Trinity College, Dublin, is used as the setting for the university, and University College Dublin, in Belfield, Dublin, is used for Rita's summer school. Julie Walters, in her feature film debut, reprised her role from the stage production. "Columbia wanted me to cast Dolly Parton as Rita". Lewis Gilbert says it was difficult to raise finance for the film. Rita, her search, and her search's meaning for her, all evolve as she adapts to academia and grows as a person. Rita's original preconceptions that the educated classes have better lives and are happier people are brought into question throughout the film through Frank's failing social life and alcoholism and her flatmate Trish's attempted suicide. Rita struggles to fit into a new educated middle-class existence in academia, while seeking a "better song to sing". The film focuses on Rita's unhappiness with her life in her blue-collar, working-class environment, including her husband who wants Rita to cease her educational pursuits and instead to have children.
His passion for literature is reignited by Rita, whose technical ability for the subject is limited by her lack of education but whose enthusiasm Frank finds refreshing. Bryant is a jaded university lecturer, who describes his occupational ability as "appalling but good enough for his appalling students". Her assigned Open University professor, Frank Bryant (Michael Caine), however, has long ago openly taken to the bottle, and soon develops misgivings about Rita's ability to adapt to student culture.
A Liverpudlian working-class young woman – hairdresser – Rita (Julie Walters) wants to better herself by studying literature.
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