Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (Blu-ray) (2011)

Editor's Note 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.

	Kristin Scott Thomas
	Ewan McGregor
	Tom Mison
	Amr Waked
	Emily Blunt
	Nayef Rashed - Co-Star
	Conleth Hill - Co-Star
	Tom Beard - Co-Star
	James Cutting - Co-Star
	Catherine Steadman - Co-Star
	Alex Taylor-McDowall - Co-Star
	Matilda White - Co-Star
	Otto Farrant - Co-Star
	Hamish Gray - Co-Star
	Waleed Akhtar - Co-Star
	Colin Kilkelly - Co-Star
	Steven Blake - Co-Star
	Rachael Stirling - Co-Star
	Naomi Donne - Makeup
	Clive Wood - Co-Star
	Hugh Simon - Co-Star
	Peter Wight - Co-Star
	Norma Webb - Makeup
	Dario Marianelli - Composer
	Terry Stacey - Director of Photography
	Simon Beaufoy - Screenwriter
	Maggie Rodford - Music Director
	Jamie Edgell - Stunt Coordinator
	Martin Cantwell - Sound
	Matthew Penry-Davey - Assistant Director
	Shaun O'Dell - 2nd Unit Director
	Rebecca Alleway - Set Decorator
	James Bellamy - Music Editor
	Helen DeWinter - Post-Production Supervisor
	Stefan Drury - Visual Effects Designer
	Harry Barnes - Sound
	Momoco - Visual Effects Designer
	LipSync Post - Visual Effects Designer
	Paul Torday - Source Writer
	Pani Ahmadi-Moore - Visual Effects Designer
	Lucy Friend - Makeup
	Artem LTD - Special Effects
	Mark Holt SFX Ltd. - Special Effects
	Jill Baker - Co-Star
	Lasse Hallstrom - Director

Rolling Stone
3 stars out of 4 -- "[A] distinct delight, brimming over with spirit and surprise." 03/15/2012

Entertainment Weekly
"[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 03/16/2012

USA Today
"SALMON makes a strong, subtle case about finding our oases no matter the desert....SALMON is a catch." 03/16/2012

Los Angeles Times
"A pleasant fantasy with a crackerjack title....Blunt and McGregor are two of the most gifted and attractive actors working today, able to play off each other with great style..." 03/09/2012

Box Office
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." 03/05/2012

New York Times
"Mr. Hallstrom and the screenwriter Simon Beaufoy have transformed Paul Torday?s absurdist political satire, SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN into a whimsical romantic comedy." 03/09/2012