Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
Haven't read the book so didn't have any preconceived ideas about this. And, I also wasn't planning to see it but ended up buying a ticket on a whim. But I'm really glad I did because it's a nice gentle rom com. Funny and warm, if a little predictable it worked for me. A pleasant couple of hours in the cinema and so I'm giving it 73%.
On IMDb it has 69% and a Metascore of 58% while on Rotten Tomatoes it has 68% and 72% of site visitors gave it three and half stars or higher.
Jeff Who Lives At Home
From the trailer this could have gone one of two ways: quirkily funny or just irritating. It's about Jeff who is too old to be still living at home and sits around smoking dope and generally not doing anything useful. He believes that everything is a sign, that fate will lead you down the right path and in the process of following 'a sign' one day he ends up on a voyage of self-discovery.
And it worked. It is nicely quirky with some laugh out loud moments. Susan Sarandon as Jeff's mum is particularly good and the Porsche scene still makes me chuckle.
I'm giving it 73% while on IMDb it has 70% with a Metacritic score of 60%. On Rotten Tomatoes it has 77% and 74% of site visitors gave it three and half stars or more.
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