Doing Time for Patsy Cline

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

N/A

Simon Mills

Guard

Betty Bobbitt

Connie