The Dish

This article is about the film. For the radio telescope in the hills above Stanford University, see Stanford Dish. For the radio telescope in Australia, see Parkes Observatory. For the television program, see The Dish (TV series). For other uses, see dish (disambiguation).

The Dish
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRob Sitch
Written bySanto Cilauro
Tom Gleisner
Jane Kennedy
Rob Sitch
Produced bySanto Cilauro
Tom Gleisner
Michael Hirsh
Jane Kennedy
Rob Sitch
StarringSam Neill
Kevin Harrington
Tom Long
Patrick Warburton
Edited byJill Bilcock
Music byEdmund Choi
Production
companies
Summit Entertainment[1]
Dish Film Productions[1]
Distributed byRoadshow Entertainment
Release dates
  • 15 September 2000 (2000-09-15) (TIFF)
  • 19 October 2000 (2000-10-19) (Australia)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Box office$18 million (Australia)

The Dish is a 2000 Australian historical comedy-drama film that tells the story of the Parkes Observatory's role in relaying live television of humanity's first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. It was the top-grossing Australian film in 2000.

  1. ^ a b "The Dish (2000)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 28 April 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2021.