
Film
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
1997 · 1h 35m · Comedy
- IMDb
- 6.2
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 78%
- Metacritic
- 51
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Overview
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.
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
Colette Brus
Waitress
Phil Collins
Police Photographer
Lillie Duxbury
Busker
Shayne Francis
TV Reporter
Crew
- Chris KennedyWriter · Director · Producer
- John WinterProducer
- Andrew LesnieDirector of Photography
- Peter BestOriginal Music Composer
- Ken SallowsEditor
- Christine KingCasting
Media
Details
- Release date
- September 25, 1997
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Comedy
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