Doing Time for Patsy Cline

Doing Time for Patsy Cline

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 25, 1997

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

62%

Original Title

Doing Time for Patsy Cline

Production Companies

Oilrag Productions, New South Wales Film & Television Office, Australian Film Finance Corporation

Director

Chris Kennedy

Description

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.