Doing Time for Patsy Cline

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Chris Kennedy

Writers

Chris Kennedy, Marguerite Bunce

Language

English

Country

Australia

Release date

25 September 1997

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Matt Day

  Ralph

• 

  Richard Roxburgh

  Boyd

• 

  Miranda Otto

  Patsy

• 

  Roy Billing

  Dad

• 

  Tony Barry

  Dwayne

• 

  Annie Byron

  Mum

• 

  Laurence Coy

  Alfie

• 

  Tom Long

  Brad Goodall

• 

  Gus Mercurio

  Tyrone

• 

  Tyler Coppin

  Bobby Joe

• Simon Mills

  Guard

• 

  Betty Bobbitt

  Connie