The Dish ( 2000 ) - DaaVeeDee

The Dish ( 2000 ) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Rob Sitch

Written By:
Santo Cilauro
Tom Gleisner

Actors:
Sam Neill ..... Cliff Buxton
Billy Mitchell ..... Cameron
Roz Hammond ..... Miss Nolan
Christopher-Robin Street ..... Damien
Luke Keltie ..... Graeme
Naomi Wright ..... Melanie
Ben Wright-Smith ..... Nicholas
Beverley Dunn ..... Secretary
Grant Thompson ..... Mr. Callen
Bille Brown ..... Prime Minister
Bernard Curry ..... Newspaper Reporter
Kevin Harrington ..... Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell
Tom Long ..... Glenn Latham
Patrick Warburton ..... Al Burnett
Roy Billing ..... Mayor Robert 'Bob' McIntyre

Synopsis:

Apollo 11's astronauts will walk on the moon - and the huge satellite dish outside a sheep-farming Australian town will beam it globally. But as giddy locals await the moment the world will rely on them, the dish flatlines. And its Aussie crew and by-the-book NASA supervisor from the U.S. differ on how to fix it. A comical culture clash erupts in this fact-based tale of how history's biggest televised event was almost cancelled.

In the days before the July 19, 1969 space mission that marked humankind's first steps on the moon, NASA was working with a group of Australian technicians who had agreed to rig up a satellite interface. That the Aussies placed the satellite dish smack dab in the middle of an Australian sheep farm in the boondocks town of Parkes was just one of the reasons that NASA was concerned. Based on a true story, The Dish takes a smart, witty, comical look at the differing cultural attitudes between Australia and the U.S. while revisiting one of the greatest events in history.

Cliff Buxton returns to the tracking station in the Australian outback where, in 1969, he was in charge when NASA designated it their main southern hemisphere contact with the first Apollo moon mission. He recalls how town pride, the shaky electricity supply, a worried NASA official, and even romance played a part as tensions mounted with the world depending on them for pictures of the first moon walk.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 28 June, 2018.