Doing Time for Patsy Cline is a 1997 Australian multi award winning film starring Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, and Matt Day and directed by Chris Kennedy.
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 b...
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Doing Time for Patsy Cline is a 1997 Australian multi award winning film starring Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, and Matt Day and directed by Chris Kennedy.
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, Boyd, and his 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. Both paths eventually lead him home, more mature and adjusted with a bag full of experiences.
In its first week of release over 12,000 people...
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