Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Released: 2011
Romance, Comedy
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked
Running Time: 107 minutes
Rated: PG-13

The breakdown: A scientist and a business consultant work together with a middle-eastern sheik to create a stream where fly fishermen can come to catch salmon in Yemen.

This was based on a book by the same name.  I'm not sure if the book is any better, but this movie was kind of boring for me.  The scientist loves fly fishing and he works for a fishing magazine.  The consultant works for some firm where I assume she makes things possible or finds a way to do impossible things.  He's married and unhappy, she's in a new relationship with a guy who after 3 weeks of them dating gets sent off to  war and asks her to wait for him.
The scientist and the consultant meet up to see how this plan is going to work and then fly to Yemen to do on site research with the sheik.  Of course they fall in love, even though, it seems the romance is kind of the subplot to this "Romantic" movie.  It's more about the fish I think.

Kinda boring, but well done.
2 out of 5 for moving slow sometimes and just being ok.
Skip it, even if you like romances.