The Dish

(2000)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 243 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History

Year: 2000

Runtime: 100 мин

Country: Australia

Director: Rob Sitch

Cast: Сэм Нилл, Патрик Уорбертон, Kevin Harrington, Tom Long, Eliza Szonert, Roy Billing, Джон МакМартин, Bille Brown, Tayler Kane, Эндрю С. Гилберт

Plot

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.

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.