Catherine Steadman

Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt Flounder in ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’

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CHICAGO – Often when novels with quirky titles get made into films, all that is left of the quirk is the name on the cover. That is exactly what has happened to “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” a tome authored by Paul Torday, and reduced to torpid blandness by director Lasse Hallstrøm.

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