The Dish
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Rob Sitch
Sam Neill
Patrick Warburton
Tom Long
Kevin Harrington
Genevieve Mooy
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
It's July 1969, and on the eve of the Apollo 11 launch, NASA has turned to Parkes, New South Wales, home of one of the world's most powerful satellite dishes, to provide back-up power for this history making mission. Gearing up for the relauch is the cardigan sporting director of operations, Cliff Buxton, and his motley crew of electronics whiz kids including the ever acerbic Mitch and the shy Glenn. Though tensions rise when NASA representative Al Burnett arrives to show them all how to run things the American way, the group must band together when a last-minute change of plans by Neil Armstrong results in the Parkes dish being the only transmitter in position to deliver to the world some of the most important images in the history of space exploration.
Cast
Sam Neill
Patrick Warburton
Tom Long
Kevin Harrington
Genevieve Mooy
Taylor Kane
Bille Brown
Roy Billing
Andrew S Gilbert
Lenka Kripac
Matthew Moore
Eliza Szonert
John Mcmartin
Carl Snell
Billy Mitchell
Roz Hammond
Christopher Robin-street
Luke Keltie
Naomi Wright
Ben Wright-smith
Beverley Dunn
Grant Thompson
Bernard Curry
Kerry Walker
Denise Roberts
Jeff Keogh
Jason Ritterman
Alexander Zent
Rowan Macartney
Aidan Macartney
Jarrod Factor
Oliver Mcgill
Marilyn O'donnell
Jane Menelaus
John Flaus
Neil Pigot
Darren Davidson
Simon Donaldson
Franklin Bennett
Randall Berger
Charles Tingwell
Mal Walden
Rod Mcneil
Alister Paterson
Colette Mann
Susan Ward
Roger Crisp
Geoffrey Payne
Matthew Moore
Crew
Simone Albert
Noel Ancell
Jim Atkins
Tony Bartuccio
Aaron Beaucaire
Jill Bilcock
Doug Brady
Debra Choate
Edmund Choi
Edmund Choi
Santo Cilauro
Santo Cilauro
Santo Cilauro
Paul Cross
Murray Curtis
Philippe Decrausaz
Greg Dunocombe
Rob Elliott
Graeme Evans
Warwick Field
Jill Fischer
Richard Girvan
Tom Gleisner
Tom Gleisner
Tom Gleisner
Richard Hicks
Yeskel Hicks
Michael Hirsh
Michael Hirsh
Pauline Hirsh
Richard Hosking
Carrie Kennedy
Carrie Kennedy
Jane Kennedy
Jane Kennedy
Jane Kennedy
Jane Kennedy
Jane Kennedy
Michael Kisin
Sonny Kompanek
Francis Lindsay
Gerry Long
Ian Loughnan
Lawrence Manchester
Annie Maver
Damien Montalvo
Ben Morieson
Ben Morieson
Susannah Mott
Andrew Neil
Justin O'neill
Andrew Osboldstone
Harry Panagiotidis
Andrea Parkes
Tim Parrington
Iain Pirret
Skye Ritchie
Matthew Rooke
Livia Ruzic
Roger Savage
Rob Sitch
Rob Sitch
Rob Sitch
Markus Stenz
Kitty Stuckey
Caroline Styles
Dan Sullivan
Peter Michael Sullivan
Gabrielle Travers
Gareth Vanderhope
Sophie Vickers-willis
Sylvia Walker-wilson
Noriko Watanabe
Peter Webb
Annie Went
Wesley Wofford
Graeme Wood
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States October 2009 (Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Special Gala Presentation) October 8-22, 2009.)
Released in United States Spring March 14, 2001
Wide Release in United States April 27, 2001
Released in United States on Video August 28, 2001
Released in United States November 2000
Released in United States January 2001
Released in United States October 2009
Shown at London Film Festival (Film on the Square) November 1-16, 2000.
Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Special Gala Presentation) October 8-22, 2009.
Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Special Presentation) October 8-22, 2009.
Based on a true story.
Completed shooting October 1999.
Began shooting May 25, 1999.
Released in United States Spring March 14, 2001
Wide Release in United States April 27, 2001
Released in United States on Video August 28, 2001
Released in United States November 2000 (Shown at London Film Festival (Film on the Square) November 1-16, 2000.)
Released in United States January 2001 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema) in Park City, Utah January 18-28, 2001.)
Released in United States October 2009 (Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Special Presentation) October 8-22, 2009.)