The words 'whimsical comedy' usually put this reviewer right off. It's
therefore difficult to know how to describe The Dish. It sounds
astonishingly unpromising: a true life comedy starring Sam Neill as a
man in charge of a large satellite dish in a small town in the Australian
outback, which is to provide the television relay for the 1969 moon
landing. However, the combination of a witty script, decent
performances and a genuinely happy ending (spoiler alert: the moon
landing goes OK) make The Dish a wondrously pleasurable experience.
Nice in the best possible sense of the word.
