THE DISH (2000)

Director: Rob Sitch

Writer: Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy & Rob Sitch

Sam Neil as Cliff
Kevin Harrington as Ross
Tom Long as Glenn
Also Patrick Warburton and Genevieve Mooy

The team who made The Castle prove that it was no fluke. Based on true events about Australia's role in helping NASA track the Apollo mission while it was passing over our skies. Unassuming and warm-hearted, the film is a well constructed comedy with enough in-jokes about Americans to please Australians (proved by its local box office, which actually eclipsed The Castle), and universal enough to also do well overseas. Thouroughly enjoyable.