The Dish

Starring:Sam Neill, Kevin Harrington, Tom Long, Patrick Warburton, Genevieve Mooy, Tayler Kane, Bille Brown, Roy Billing, Andrew S. Gilbert, Lenka Kripac, Matthew Moore (II), Eliza Szonert, John McMartin, Carl Snell, Billy Mitchell (II), Rosalind Hammond, Christopher-Robin Street, Luke Keltie, Naomi Wright, Ben Wright-Smith
Director: Rob Sitch
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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The Dish, a good-natured and effortlessly funny Australian drama-comedy directed by Rob Sitch (The Castle), is filled with warm-hearted characters and has a factual hook that's irresistibly inspiring. This cumulative goodwill springs forth from the rural town of Parkes in New South Wales, where a 1,000-ton radio observatory dish is recruited to relay telemetry, voice, and television signals from the historic Apollo 11 moon landing in July 1969. To make sure the dish delivers Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind" to 600 million eager viewers, site director Cliff Buxton (Sam Neill, at his gentle best) relies on a three-man crew consisting of an American NASA watchdog (Patrick Warburton, resembling a bearish Clark Kent), a sarcastic engineer (Kevin Harrington), and a lovestruck math whiz (Tom Long) who's pining for the sister of the dish's rather dimly overzealous security guard (Taylor Kane).

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The Dish, a good-natured and effortlessly funny Australian drama-comedy directed by Rob Sitch (The Castle), is filled with warm-hearted characters and has a factual hook that's irresistibly inspiring. This cumulative goodwill springs forth from the rural town of Parkes in New South Wales, where a 1,000-ton radio observatory dish is recruited to relay telemetry, voice, and television signals from the historic Apollo 11 moon landing in July 1969. To make sure the dish delivers Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind" to 600 million eager viewers, site director Cliff Buxton (Sam Neill, at his gentle best) relies on a three-man crew consisting of an American NASA watchdog (Patrick Warburton, resembling a bearish Clark Kent), a sarcastic engineer (Kevin Harrington), and a lovestruck math whiz (Tom Long) who's pining for the sister of the dish's rather dimly overzealous security guard (Taylor Kane).

Product Description

From animation genius Bill Plympton comes this high-spirited and sexually charged comedy about a wife who realizes that the man of her dreams isn't quite what he seems! Keri Boyer promised to love her husband Grant for better or worse, but she never expected this. It seems as though an odd growth on Grant's neck has given him the ability to will his fantasies to life. In no time, he's torturing his annoying mother-in-law, dreaming up bizarre sexual adventures and turning his wife's life upside down. But when everyone from an ambitious television executive to a hopeless Las Vegas comedian to an overly enthusiastic Army colonel wants a piece of Grant's growth for themselves, it's up to this little lady to save her husband and her sanity.

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Running Time 72 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Because two copulating birds bash into his satellite dish, the blandly handsome Grant develops godlike powers. When he and his new bride Kerry have sex, the entire house joins in, from the soap dish to the electric sockets. Grant manipulates her breasts to form balloon animals; he changes her into a blonde, then a nun, then the Statue of Liberty. Basically, he's become an animator like his creator Bill Plympton, able to make the world reflect his every id-driven whim. Is it any wonder that Kerry begins to question if Grant is still the same straight-up guy she married? Plympton's new animated movie, I Married a Strange Person!, opens with a quote from Picasso: "Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativity." Plympton has taken this perhaps a little too much to heart, but with a good dose of sprightly charm. Plympton's drawing style vibrates, shimmies, and pops with boyish cheer. The movie is regularly punctuated with breezy songs that you'd imagine sound great on a ukulele, sung by some guy in a straw boater. Over-the-top sex and violence and crazed excursions into the origin of belly-button lint combine to produce a weird, sparkling movie. I Married a Strange Person! is clearly the pure product of Plympton's imagination, without any meddling from studio executives. --Bret Fetzer

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I Married a Strange Person!
Starring: Charis Michelsen , Tom Larson , Richard Spore , Chris Cooke , and Ruth Ray
Director: Bill Plympton
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 0783241240
Release Date: 2000-04-25

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Charlie Rose with Michael McFaul & Stephen Sestanovich; Jeffrey Sachs; Liz Smith (May 9, 2005)

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Charlie Rose with Michael McFaul & Stephen Sestanovich; Jeffrey Sachs; Liz Smith (May 9, 2005)

Manufacturer: "Charlie Rose, Inc."
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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A conversation about President Bush's trip to Russia with Michael McFaul of the Hoover Institution and Stephen Sestanovich, former US Ambassador to Russia. Also, a discussion about global poverty with Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Sachs is the author of The End of Poverty. Gossip Columnist Liz Smith talks about her new book, Dishing: Great Dish - and Dishes - from America's Most Beloved Gossip Columnist.

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The Dish [Region 2]
Starring: Sam Neill , Billy Mitchell (II) , Rosalind Hammond , Christopher-Robin Street , and Luke Keltie
Director: Rob Sitch
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005K372

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Dish Dogs [Region 2]
Starring: Sean Astin , Matthew Lillard , Brian Dennehy , Shannon Elizabeth , and Maitland Ward
Director: Robert Kubilos
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005MFIE

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The Dish [Region 2]
Starring: Sam Neill , Billy Mitchell (II) , Rosalind Hammond , Christopher-Robin Street , and Luke Keltie
Director: Rob Sitch
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005BJCB

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