Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes78%
Metacritic51/100
6 audience votes
Key crew
- Chris KennedyDirector
- Chris KennedyWriter
- Peter BestOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Matt DayRalph
- Richard RoxburghBoyd
- Miranda OttoPatsy
- Roy BillingDad
- Tony BarryDwayne
- Annie ByronMum
- Laurence CoyAlfie
- Tom LongBrad Goodall
- Gus MercurioTyrone
- Tyler CoppinBobby Joe
- Simon MillsGuard
- Betty BobbittConnie
Stills
Themes
country musicjailhitchhikernashville, tennessee