Salmon Fishing in the Yemen PG-13

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
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  • 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

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Rating: 2/5 -- The preachiness - about "faith" - gets so thick that the film completely loses all its early zingy lightness of touch. Full Review
Financial Times
Apr 19, 2012
SALMON makes a strong, subtle case about finding our oases no matter the desert....SALMON is a catch.
USA Today
Mar 16, 2012
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
Mar 5, 2012
The movie's 107 minutes don't swim upstream so much as flounder in a bucket of chum. Full Review
DCist
Aug 30, 2018
McGregor's wit has soft barb of single-malt Scotch, the story sings through a sweet arc, and the landscapes are lovely. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Jul 31, 2019
Rating: 2/5 -- Unfortunately, these characters belong to different worlds that don't meld, cartoonish political satire and dopey romcom. Full Review
London Evening Standard
Apr 20, 2012
OK, if this film teaches us anything, it teaches us how to take a perfectly fine book and transform it into a mushy, corny, ghastly mess of the most trying kind. Full Review
The Spectator
Aug 31, 2018

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.

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  • UPC: 043396401716
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