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 and supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (the FCO). Alfred dismisses the project as "fundamentally unfeasible" because the 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.
MPAA Rating: | PG-13 |
Genre: | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Produced By: | Nicky Kentish Barnes, Jamie Laurenson, Guy Avshalom, Victor Hadida, Samuel Hadida, Zakaria Alaoui, Paul Webster, Zygi Kamasa, Stephen Garrett, Paula Jalfon |
Directed By: | Lasse Hallström |
Written By: | Simon Beaufoy, Paul Torday |
Cast: | Alex Taylor-McDowall, Nayef Rashed, Rachael Stirling, Hugh Simon, Hamish Gray, James Cutting, Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott Thomas, Conleth Hill, Jorge Leon Martinez, Catherine Steadman, Peter Wight, Matilda White, Tom Mison, Waleed Akhtar, Steven Blake, Otto Farrant, Amr Waked, Jill Baker, Tom Beard, Emily Blunt, Clive Wood |
In Theaters: | Apr 20, 2012 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 47 minutes |
Production: | UK Film Council, BBC Films, CBS Films, Shine Pictures |
Box Office: | $9,047,981 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |