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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a British film of genre Drama directed by Lasse Hallström released in USA on 9 march 2012 with Ewan McGregor

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
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Released in USA 9 march 2012
Length 1h51
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Romance
Rating67% 3.397443.397443.397443.397443.39744

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a 2011 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas and Amr Waked. Based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Paul Torday, and a screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, the film is about a fisheries expert who is recruited by a consultant to help realize a sheikh's vision of bringing the sport of fly fishing to the Yemen desert, initiating an upstream journey of faith to make the impossible possible. The film was shot on location in London, Scotland, and Morocco from August to October 2010. The film premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. The film received generally positive reviews upon its release, and earned $34,564,651 in revenue worldwide.

Synopsis

Fisheries expert Alfred Jones (Ewan McGregor) receives an email from financial adviser Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt), seeking advice on a project to bring salmon fishing to the Yemen—a project being bankrolled by a wealthy Yemeni sheikh. Alfred dismisses the project as "fundamentally unfeasible" because Yemen cannot provide the necessary environment for salmon. Meanwhile, the British Prime Minister's press secretary Patricia Maxwell (Kristin Scott Thomas) suggests the salmon fishing story to the Prime Minister's office as a positive story to help improve relations between Britain and the Islamic world.

Actors

Ewan McGregor

(Dr. Alfred Jones)
Emily Blunt

(Harriet Chetwode-Talbot)
Kristin Scott Thomas

(Patricia Maxwell)
Amr Waked

(Sheikh Muhammad)
Rachael Stirling

(Mary Jones)
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