Salmon Fishing in the Yemen12A

A preposterous pipe dream nourishes an unlikely romance in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a crowd- pleasing delight based on the Paul Torday bestseller. Cast against type, Ewan McGregor is a pompous, cardigan-wearing fisheries expert asked to devise a means of introducing salmon into the waterways of Yemen as a way of flying the flag for Anglo-Yemeni relations. He assumes it is a joke until Emily Blunt and £50 million from an idealistic sheikh convince him otherwise. As the dream becomes a reality, two lonely souls are gently nudged together in a captivating romantic comedy with stunning locations and a scene-stealing Kristin Scott Thomas as a ruthless spin doctor in the Malcolm Tucker mould.