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The Dish

Year:

2001

Duration:

101 min | France:97 min (DVD)

Genres:

Comedy | Drama

IMDB rate:

7.3

Director:

Rob Sitch

Awards:

3 wins & 11 nominations

Details

Country: Australia

Release Date: 2001-04-27

Filming Locations: Crawford Productions, Box Hill, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $70,612 (USA) (18 March 2001)

Gross: $2,252,970 (USA) (8 July 2001)

Cast

Actor

Character

Kerry Walker

The Dish

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 (voice)

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

Andrew S. Gilbert

Len Purvis

Matthew Moore

Keith Morrison

Denise Roberts

Bronwyn

Jeff Keogh

Ray

Jason Ritterman

Adrian Hobbs

Alexander Zent

Lead Guitarist

Rowan Macartney

Trumpet

Aidan Macartney

Trombone

Jarrod Factor

Drummer

Oliver McGill

Pianist

Genevieve Mooy

May McIntyre

Marilyn O'Donnell

Melva

Jane Menelaus

Gwen

Lenka Kripac

Marie McIntyre

John Flaus

Ron

Carl Snell

Billy McIntyre

Eliza Szonert

Janine Kellerman

Tayler Kane

Rudi Kellerman

Neil Pigot

Journalist

Darren Davidson

Camera Person

Simon Donaldson

Sound Person

John McMartin

U.S. Ambassador Howard

Frank Bennett

Barry Steele

Randall Berger

Ambassador's Aide

Charles 'Bud' Tingwell

Reverend Loftus

Mal Walden

ABC Journalist (voice)

Rod McNeil

Radio Newsreader (voice)

Alister Paterson

ABC TV Newsreader

Colette Mann

Betty the Bush Poet

Susan Ward

Female Print Journalist

Roger Crisp

Male Reporter

Buzz Aldrin

Himself (archive footage)

Neil Armstrong

Himself (archive footage)

Michael Collins

Himself (archive footage)

John Glenn

Himself (archive footage)

Nicholas Bell

TV Scientist (uncredited)

Walter Cronkite

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hubert H. Humphrey

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

John F. Kennedy

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Nixon

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Eric Pearce

Himself (TV Newsreader) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The film is set in the town of Parkes, in New South Wales, Aus., but was actually filmed in Forbes, which is a neighboring town a few miles down the road. The reason for the re-filming is because Parkes has changed over the last 30 years, but Forbes hasn't changed as much - Forbes still looked like a 1960s town, like Parkes did 30 years before.

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Visa d'exploitation en France : # 1O4714. MPAA certificate # 38002.

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This movie is actually based on a true story, the name of the real director of the Parkes antenna was Dr. John Bolton.

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Goofs

During the classroom scene at the beginning of the movie the first student describes the moon landing and a battle with aliens which involves Lasers. Whilst Lasers had been invented, their commercialisation and popular use was not yet prevalent. A more appropriate term would have been Ray Guns.

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Archive footage of the ascent stage of the lunar module lifting off from the moon is not from the Apollo 11 mission. The first images of such a lift-off (showing an exterior view of the lunar module) were made using the camera mounted on the wheeled lunar roving vehicles, only carried on later Apollo missions 15, 16 and 17.

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When Janine exits the car after she arrived at the dish facility, the shadow of some equipment falls on the hood and roof of the car.

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Quotes

Worker: Excuse me sir, I'm afraid you've come in the wrong way. Cliff Buxton: I'm sorry...

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Marie McIntyre: This entire mission is just an example of America's imperialistic greed!

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May McIntyre: [about moon landing] Do the people in India get to watch it?

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