Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)

  And here's another British movie featuring an allusion to water!  Unlike The Deep Blue Sea, however, this one is ridiculously charming and not a slog at all.

Fred Jones (Ewan McGregor) is just a lowly pencil-pusher in Her Majesty's Fisheries Department when he receives what he initially assumes is a joke email from Harriet Chetwoode-Talbot (Emily Blunt) asking for a feasibility study into the introduction of salmon to the Yemen River.  Ms. Chetwoode-Talbot represents the British interests of a Yemeni sheik (Amr Waked) who has developed a passion for the sport of fly fishing.  While intensely skeptical at first, Dr. Jones slowly begins to realize that when money is literally no object, anything is possible.  He and Harriet pour all their efforts into this project even as their personal lives start to crumble around them.

Ewan McGregor hasn't been this adorable since Moulin Rouge but Emily Blunt is naturally, effortlessly ebullient.  It makes me feel a lot better about the forthcoming Mary Poppins sequel that she is starring in it.  That being said, I felt like his character should have been played by someone older, even though I loathe May-December romances in film.  It would have made for more of a contrast between them.

Also, Tom Mison from Sleepy Hollow is in this!  I loved him as Ichabod Crane but I never thought of him as hot until I watched this movie.  He's just so pretty.

There's a subtext here of faith moving mountains and a lot of analogies to fishing but ignore all that and focus on the hilarious turns by Kristin Scott Thomas as a no-nonsense Press Secretary and Conleth Hill as Fred's spiteful boss.  It's included in Prime so you can stream it at your leisure.