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Dish, The (2001)

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Release Date: March 14, 2001 (Limited)
April 27, 2001
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Foreign
Running Time: 104 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for brief, strong language.
Director: Rob Sitch
Writer: Rob Sitch, Jane Kennedy, Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro
Cast: Jane Menelaus, Genevieve Mooy, Marilyn O'Donnell, Charles, John McMartin, Tayler Kane, Patrick Warburton, Kevin Harrington, Tom Long, Roy Billing, Bille Brown, John Flaus, Andrew S. Gilbert, Rosalind Hammond, Sam Neill

During the famous Apollo 11 mission, a satellite dish installation in Parkes, Australia, working as a relay with NASA, suffers a near-disaster as a local blackout causes them to "lose" the spacecraft. Read more

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Grade: B- Well, Jurassic Park III sucked, but at least Sam Neill can boast about The Dish, a mildly entertaining and modestly original Australian film about a little known fact involving the Apollo 11 mission. Read the full movie review

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