By strange coincidence, I am writing about this movie just as I’ve been thinking about movies I call “gift movies”.  By that I mean movies that I like to “give” to people.

If you are a movie fan to any degree, you have movies that fall into that category.  You love it too much to keep it to yourself.  The Dish has always been a film that falls into that category for me.  I’m always eager to give that movie to another person.

I don’t mean “give” in the physical sense.  Rather I mean giving the opportunity to share the experience of watching that film with as many people as possible.

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