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The Dish

The Dish

6,8 /10 (229 Votes)
2000 EN 101 min

Overview

A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtaining the epic images of man's first steps on the moon.

Release date

19/10/2000

Votes

229

Popularity

0.9

Man's first step on the moon nearly stumbled on earth.

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

101 min

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Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn

2023-04-04

⭐ 8

I may have watched this Aussie film much closer to when it came out, since have always like Sam Neill, but I had no memory of it and we gave it a look. It is very entertaining in a quiet way. The bursts of humor are short, occasional and subtle, and it works. Of course it is based on actual events and feature a few news archive clips as well as actors playing historical characters, sometimes almost as a cameo. It features some restrained tension and suspense as the crew at the telescope try to live up to their commitment to passing audio and video from the moon landing on to NASA and t…

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