

Doing Time for Patsy Cline
1997-09-25 · 95 min · ★ 6.3
Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. He hopes to hitchhike to Sydney Airport where his take-off into a successful country/western singing career will hopefully begin. However, fate and his naivety find him hitchhiking with a psychotic drug thief named Boyd, and Boyd's mesmerising girlfriend, Patsy. The plot then splits into a series of parallels, flash forwards and flashbacks. One depicts Ralph’s imprisonment after being framed for drug trafficking. The other follows the dramatic ascent of his career to hype status and the pairing between the dynamic Patsy and himself.
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- Directors
- Chris Kennedy
- Production companies
- Oilrag Productions, New South Wales Film & Television Office, Australian Film Finance Corporation
- Countries
- Australia
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Matt DayRalph
Richard RoxburghBoyd
Miranda OttoPatsy
Roy BillingDad
Tony BarryDwayne
Annie ByronMum
Laurence CoyAlfie
Tom LongBrad Goodall
Gus MercurioTyrone
Tyler CoppinBobby Joe
Betty BobbittConnie
Wayne PygramGeoff SpinksTitle information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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