Salmon Fishing in the Yemen PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 17, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Mison & Amr Waked | |
Directed by | Lasse Hallström | |
Screenwriting by | Simon Beaufoy | |
Composition by | Dario Marianelli | |
Produced by | Paul Webster | |
Director of Photography: | Terry Stacey |
Entertainment Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- Director Lasse Hallstrom is back in top form with SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, the first pure delight of 2012; it's a movie that makes you feel good about going to the movies again.
Box Office
The movie's 107 minutes don't swim upstream so much as flounder in a bucket of chum.
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DCist
Don't let the title fool you - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen will not bore you to tears, though some moments may cause your eyes to water from laughter.
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Digital Journal
Rating: 2/5 --
Too light for its own good.
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Little White Lies
Rating: 2/5 --
The stars are endearing enough to keep things tolerable, though you may wonder why even McGregor's Scots brogue sounds artificially sweetened here.
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Time Out
[The film] takes us back to the sort of achingly civilized love story in which the only thing that really stands in the way of two people falling for each other is their own decorum. -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
Blunt, who is so bloody charming in everything she does, and McGregor do have nice chemistry, but the romantic arc is so predictable.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Product Description:
A handful of curious Brits become fish out of water when they get mixed up in the dream project of an eccentric sheikh in this satirical comedy. Emily Blunt is Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, a British businesswoman who manages the financial affairs of a wealthy but eccentric Arab named Sheikh Muhammed (Amr Waked). Muhammed's latest proposition involves paying fifty million pounds to fully stock a Yemeni river with salmon, and thus engender sport fishing in the desert region. To better gauge the feasibility of this wild plan, Harriet contacts
Dr. Alfred "Fred" Jones (Ewan McGregor), a Scottish scientist who specializes in establishing fisheries. Jones shoots the plan down instantly, but soon Patricia Maxwell (Kristin Scott Thomas), the press secretary to the British prime minister, catches wind of it and sees it as the ideal way to promote better international relations between England and the Middle East, especially in light of the torrent of bad news concerning terrorism and general unrest in the Arabic countries. She does everything she can to turn Jones around. Though the scientist will have no part of it at first, he's threatened with job termination if he refuses, and then sets out to create a fully stocked lake in the middle of the desert. As Jones takes on a project that ranks somewhere between ridiculous and impossible, he also finds he's falling in love with Chetwode-Talbot, though the fact that he's married and she has a boyfriend (Tom Mison) fighting in the Middle East makes things sticky. Based on the best-selling novel by Paul Torday, SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN received its world premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
Dr. Alfred "Fred" Jones (Ewan McGregor), a Scottish scientist who specializes in establishing fisheries. Jones shoots the plan down instantly, but soon Patricia Maxwell (Kristin Scott Thomas), the press secretary to the British prime minister, catches wind of it and sees it as the ideal way to promote better international relations between England and the Middle East, especially in light of the torrent of bad news concerning terrorism and general unrest in the Arabic countries. She does everything she can to turn Jones around. Though the scientist will have no part of it at first, he's threatened with job termination if he refuses, and then sets out to create a fully stocked lake in the middle of the desert. As Jones takes on a project that ranks somewhere between ridiculous and impossible, he also finds he's falling in love with Chetwode-Talbot, though the fact that he's married and she has a boyfriend (Tom Mison) fighting in the Middle East makes things sticky. Based on the best-selling novel by Paul Torday, SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN received its world premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
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- Sales Rank: 37,240
- UPC: 043396401716
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