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Well, worth watching, and worth the effort I spent to go see it seeing as how only one goddamn theater in D/FW saw fit to carry it. The setting is 1969 Australia, in particular the radio telescope that was key to the video of the first moonwalk. There is a very good review on IMDB that captures everything perfectly. I’m actually glad finally to see a comedy that has genuine humor, as opposed to movies that are comedies simply because one of the actors used to be a comedian.

The plot is simple, there aren’t any “hidden” parts, no surprise twists. The comedy doesn’t lie in the typical “sit-com” vein of putting people into an odd situation and watch them make fools of themselves, it’s done in a far subtler way, innocent dialogue that you don’t see coming ’til it’s said.

Simple movie, simple characters, simple plot, simple rating: 1 star.

(Rating system: Movies I like get a star. Movies I don’t, don’t)