Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (1:52) 2012

Quiet and quirky are the two movie descriptors that immediately come to mind. Dr. Fred Jones (Ewan McGregor) is one of Britain's leading fish experts. Harriet (Emily Blount) is a financial consultant for a extremely wealthy Yemeni sheik. These two sweet characters are brought together when the sheik, a humble man of faith, decides to build a dam in his homeland and stock the river with salmon. Jones, a man of science, believes the project to be foolhardy and impractical. Salmon need cold water and Yemen is a desert country. Jones and Harriet, with the prodding of the Prime Minister's press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas), fly off to Yemen to make the improbable possible just as the salmon swim upstream every year. Will something more than eggs be spawned? Will friendships, love and faith develop? Being the opening day of The Hunger Games, the lines at the theater were not for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. My daughter and I were part of a small audience that really seem to enjoy this movie. Jones being a man with Aspberger's Syndrome so he can be socially awkward and inept. Having little humor, Jones provides some witty lines that produced audience laughter. Don't know about anyone else, but I fell for the sheik hook, line and sinker. His quiet charm is just so very endearing. The movie does have a touch of a travelogue feel and that is not meant to be a criticism. Filming takes place in two locations - a Scottish castle which I assume is in the highlands and in the desert of Morocco. Both settings, vastly different terrain, are beautifully filmed. As you can probably tell, this British film is definitely my cup of tea.