Doing Time for Patsy Cline

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. Both paths eventually lead him home, with Ralph consequently being more mature and adjusted, and with a bag full of experiences.

Doing Time for Patsy Cline grossed $671,639 at the box office in Australia,{{Cite web |url=http://film.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf |title=Film Victoria – Australian Films at the Australian Box Office |access-date=8 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218045303/http://film.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf |archive-date=18 February 2011 |url-status=dead }} which is equivalent to £710,760.53 or US$940,295, in 2009.

The film received generally positive reviews.[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10001629-doing_time_for_patsy_cline/ Patsy Cline at Rotten Tomatoes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217021912/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10001629-doing_time_for_patsy_cline/ |date=17 December 2007 }}. Retrieved 21 December 2007. The New York Times criticized the film's editing and "jarring leaps in time", but praised the film's performances, especially that of Roxburgh.[https://movies.nytimes.com/2006/03/03/movies/03pats.html Doing Time for Patsy Cline New York Times Review]. Retrieved 21 December 2007.

The film received many award nominations including ten AFI Award nominations for 1997. It won an Australian Writer's Guild Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film won four Australian Film Institute Awards including Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Original Music Score, and Best Costume Design.[http://www.australiantelevision.net/awards/afi1997.html 1997 AFI Awards Winners]. Retrieved 20 December 2007. It also won an award of distinction for production design. It won three Australian Film Critics' Awards, including Best Actor, Best Musical Score and Best Cinematography.{{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6696/Crix/98ausfc.htm |title=1997 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards |access-date=2010-10-07 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023055958/http://geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6696/Crix/98ausfc.htm |archive-date=23 October 2009 }}. Retrieved 20 December 2007. It also won a San Diego Film Festival Award for Best Original Script[https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/San_Diego_International_Film_Festival/1998 IMDb San Diego Film Festival 1997]. Retrieved 20 December 2007. and a Melbourne International Film Festival Award for Most Popular Australian Film.[http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/film_reviews/article_16.asp?s=1 Patsy Wins Australia's Heart] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080721064140/http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/film_reviews/article_16.asp?s=1 |date=21 July 2008 }}. Retrieved 20 December 2007.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119002/awards IMDb-Awards won by Doing Time For Patsy Cline]. Retrieved 20 December 2007.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071201202319/http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2002/doin.htm Doing Time for Patsy Cline] at the Oz Film Database
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071127034027/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/156905/Doing-Time-for-Patsy-Cline/overview Doing Time for Patsy Cline] at The New York Times

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