Born: Established: 1 Dec 1948 Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 27 Aug 2013
Gender:
Male
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Most Referenced Works
Notes
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Chris Kennedy is an award winning Australian screenwriter, director, producer and author.
Awards for Works
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form
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Doing Time for Patsy Cline
( dir. Chris Kennedy
)
Australia
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Oilrag Productions
,
1997
Z1848548
1997
single work
film/TV
crime
fantasy
'Ralph (Matt Day) leaves his parents' property in western Queensland with his guitar and a ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. His plans to become a country singer take a detour when a flamboyant couple in a large black car stop to pick him up. Boyd (Richard Roxburgh) and his girlfriend Patsy (Miranda Otto) are sophisticated world-travellers. Unfortunately, Boyd is also carrying a large amount of illegal drugs. He and Ralph are soon in a police cell, with three country-singing convicts (Tony Barry, Kiri Paramore and Laurence Coy). Patsy escapes into the night. In a parallel story, Ralph imagines a completely different reality, in which he and Patsy team up as a singing duo in Nashville, with Boyd as her conniving manager. The two stories run side by side throughout the film, as Boyd and Ralph prepare to face justice. When Patsy reappears with bad news, Ralph has to make some hard choices.'
Source: Australian Screen website. (Sighted: 2/8/2012)
- 1997 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Original Screenplay
Last amended 4 Sep 2013 09:06:32
