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.
Acting
Miranda Otto before LOTR, absolutely magnetic as Patsy
Direction
Kennedy's playful structure keeps you deliciously off-balance
Writing
Sharp Aussie wit meets genuine melancholy
Director
Chris Kennedy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures a specific 90s moment when Australian cinema was obsessed with quirky rural dreamers chasing American fantasies, before global streaming flattened local voices.
Richard Roxburgh plays Boyd with unhinged menace years before becoming the Duke in Moulin Rouge—same chaotic energy, different century.
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