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On his way to the store to buy wood glue, Jeff looks for signs from the universe to determine his path. However, a series of comedic and unexpected events leads him to cross paths with his family in the strangest of locations and circumstances. Jeff just may find the meaning of his life...and if he's lucky, pick up the wood glue as well.

On his way to the store to buy wood glue, Jeff looks for signs from the universe to determine his path. However, a series of comedic and unexpected events leads him to cross paths with his family in the strangest of locations and circumstances. Jeff just may find the meaning of his life...and if he's lucky, pick up the wood glue as well.

A SWAT team is sent on a suicide mission to extricate a crime boss (Ray Sahetaphy) from the 15-story urban apartment building that serves as his headquarters. When the squad's head (Joe Taslim) is killed,a rookie (Iko Uwais, who also served as fight choreographer) has to lead his guys through 14 video-monitored floors filled with murderous thugs.  Extraordinary stunt and fight work and nonstop excitement, but a warning to those who are at all squeamish.  Andy Klein - Christian Science Monitor

Join comedy impresario and film critic Mark Breslin for a three-part film series featuring ground-breaking comedians. Mark will share insight into the world of standup comedy, the business of funny and how it translates into great film. The Revue is thrilled to welcome Mark as our resident comedy guru for the next three months.

Comedian is a look at the work of two stand-up comics, Jerry Seinfeld and lesser-known newcomer Orny Adams, detailing the effort and frustration behind putting together a successful act and career while living a life on the road.

Comedian explores the other side of stand-up comedy:  the preparation, politics, nerves, and creativity. Cameo appearances include Colin Quinn, Jim Norton, Ray Romano, Godfrey, Chris Rock, Jay Leno, Tom Papa, and Bill Cosby.

A SWAT team is sent on a suicide mission to extricate a crime boss (Ray Sahetaphy) from the 15-story urban apartment building that serves as his headquarters. When the squad's head (Joe Taslim) is killed,a rookie (Iko Uwais, who also served as fight choreographer) has to lead his guys through 14 video-monitored floors filled with murderous thugs.  Extraordinary stunt and fight work and nonstop excitement, but a warning to those who are at all squeamish.  Andy Klein - Christian Science Monitor

Like any master of the art, Jiro, who is 85, can show you how a trick works, let you see the details, and yet it still mystifies anyway. That is the hallmark of true magic. But while other magicians work with top hats and rabbits, Jiro works with sushi. His restaurant, a tiny, 10-seat spot in a Tokyo subway station, is widely acclaimed as home to the greatest sushi in the world.

Jiro is obsessed with sushi. What is the old adage? Find something you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life? Perhaps. But Jiro lives to work. He detests holidays, can't wait to get back to the restaurant, get back to toiling at his chosen path: to make better sushi. Yes, his may be the best there is, but that's not good enough for him. The title is telling -- Jiro dreams of making better sushi, despite working at it non-stop for 70 years.  - Bill Goodykoontz/AZ Republic

Young people, selected by lottery, slaughter one another with kill-or-be-killed desperation in The Hunger Games. The savagery is a yearly ritual mandated by the tyrannical regime of Panem, a broken nation built, after a terrible war, on the futuristic ruins of North America. It's also broadcast on live TV, a national media event. This horrific vision of a near future in which teenagers are in peril is sickening, but the individual heroism of some who fight is also thrilling, as millions of readers can attest: Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a literary sensation. The good news now coming out of Panem, both for those who already know just how brutal the Games become and those who are new to the dystopian tale, is that the movie adaptation knows how to play too. - Lisa Schwarzbaum/EW

The animated adventure follows the journey of a 12-year-old as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.

Young people, selected by lottery, slaughter one another with kill-or-be-killed desperation in The Hunger Games. The savagery is a yearly ritual mandated by the tyrannical regime of Panem, a broken nation built, after a terrible war, on the futuristic ruins of North America. It's also broadcast on live TV, a national media event. This horrific vision of a near future in which teenagers are in peril is sickening, but the individual heroism of some who fight is also thrilling, as millions of readers can attest: Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a literary sensation. The good news now coming out of Panem, both for those who already know just how brutal the Games become and those who are new to the dystopian tale, is that the movie adaptation knows how to play too. - Lisa Schwarzbaum/EW

Like any master of the art, Jiro, who is 85, can show you how a trick works, let you see the details, and yet it still mystifies anyway. That is the hallmark of true magic. But while other magicians work with top hats and rabbits, Jiro works with sushi. His restaurant, a tiny, 10-seat spot in a Tokyo subway station, is widely acclaimed as home to the greatest sushi in the world.

Jiro is obsessed with sushi. What is the old adage? Find something you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life? Perhaps. But Jiro lives to work. He detests holidays, can't wait to get back to the restaurant, get back to toiling at his chosen path: to make better sushi. Yes, his may be the best there is, but that's not good enough for him. The title is telling -- Jiro dreams of making better sushi, despite working at it non-stop for 70 years.  - Bill Goodykoontz/AZ Republic

Young people, selected by lottery, slaughter one another with kill-or-be-killed desperation in The Hunger Games. The savagery is a yearly ritual mandated by the tyrannical regime of Panem, a broken nation built, after a terrible war, on the futuristic ruins of North America. It's also broadcast on live TV, a national media event. This horrific vision of a near future in which teenagers are in peril is sickening, but the individual heroism of some who fight is also thrilling, as millions of readers can attest: Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a literary sensation. The good news now coming out of Panem, both for those who already know just how brutal the Games become and those who are new to the dystopian tale, is that the movie adaptation knows how to play too. - Lisa Schwarzbaum/EW

The animated adventure follows the journey of a 12-year-old as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.

Young people, selected by lottery, slaughter one another with kill-or-be-killed desperation in The Hunger Games. The savagery is a yearly ritual mandated by the tyrannical regime of Panem, a broken nation built, after a terrible war, on the futuristic ruins of North America. It's also broadcast on live TV, a national media event. This horrific vision of a near future in which teenagers are in peril is sickening, but the individual heroism of some who fight is also thrilling, as millions of readers can attest: Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a literary sensation. The good news now coming out of Panem, both for those who already know just how brutal the Games become and those who are new to the dystopian tale, is that the movie adaptation knows how to play too. - Lisa Schwarzbaum/EW

Like any master of the art, Jiro, who is 85, can show you how a trick works, let you see the details, and yet it still mystifies anyway. That is the hallmark of true magic. But while other magicians work with top hats and rabbits, Jiro works with sushi. His restaurant, a tiny, 10-seat spot in a Tokyo subway station, is widely acclaimed as home to the greatest sushi in the world.

Jiro is obsessed with sushi. What is the old adage? Find something you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life? Perhaps. But Jiro lives to work. He detests holidays, can't wait to get back to the restaurant, get back to toiling at his chosen path: to make better sushi. Yes, his may be the best there is, but that's not good enough for him. The title is telling -- Jiro dreams of making better sushi, despite working at it non-stop for 70 years.  - Bill Goodykoontz/AZ Republic

Young people, selected by lottery, slaughter one another with kill-or-be-killed desperation in The Hunger Games. The savagery is a yearly ritual mandated by the tyrannical regime of Panem, a broken nation built, after a terrible war, on the futuristic ruins of North America. It's also broadcast on live TV, a national media event. This horrific vision of a near future in which teenagers are in peril is sickening, but the individual heroism of some who fight is also thrilling, as millions of readers can attest: Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a literary sensation. The good news now coming out of Panem, both for those who already know just how brutal the Games become and those who are new to the dystopian tale, is that the movie adaptation knows how to play too. - Lisa Schwarzbaum/EW

The animated adventure follows the journey of a 12-year-old as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.

Young people, selected by lottery, slaughter one another with kill-or-be-killed desperation in The Hunger Games. The savagery is a yearly ritual mandated by the tyrannical regime of Panem, a broken nation built, after a terrible war, on the futuristic ruins of North America. It's also broadcast on live TV, a national media event. This horrific vision of a near future in which teenagers are in peril is sickening, but the individual heroism of some who fight is also thrilling, as millions of readers can attest: Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a literary sensation. The good news now coming out of Panem, both for those who already know just how brutal the Games become and those who are new to the dystopian tale, is that the movie adaptation knows how to play too. - Lisa Schwarzbaum/EW

Like any master of the art, Jiro, who is 85, can show you how a trick works, let you see the details, and yet it still mystifies anyway. That is the hallmark of true magic. But while other magicians work with top hats and rabbits, Jiro works with sushi. His restaurant, a tiny, 10-seat spot in a Tokyo subway station, is widely acclaimed as home to the greatest sushi in the world.

Jiro is obsessed with sushi. What is the old adage? Find something you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life? Perhaps. But Jiro lives to work. He detests holidays, can't wait to get back to the restaurant, get back to toiling at his chosen path: to make better sushi. Yes, his may be the best there is, but that's not good enough for him. The title is telling -- Jiro dreams of making better sushi, despite working at it non-stop for 70 years.  - Bill Goodykoontz/AZ Republic

Young people, selected by lottery, slaughter one another with kill-or-be-killed desperation in The Hunger Games. The savagery is a yearly ritual mandated by the tyrannical regime of Panem, a broken nation built, after a terrible war, on the futuristic ruins of North America. It's also broadcast on live TV, a national media event. This horrific vision of a near future in which teenagers are in peril is sickening, but the individual heroism of some who fight is also thrilling, as millions of readers can attest: Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a literary sensation. The good news now coming out of Panem, both for those who already know just how brutal the Games become and those who are new to the dystopian tale, is that the movie adaptation knows how to play too. - Lisa Schwarzbaum/EW

John Voight's Texas-born stud Joe Buck quits a job washing dishes at a diner to hop a bus to Manhattan. With a portable radio stuck to his ear, Buck dreams of turning the town red as a cowboy-styled gigolo. However, Buck is woefully unprepared for the harsh reality of 1960s New York.  Buck imagines his luck turning when he meets lowlife conman Rico "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman).  The film is filled with dark social and political commentary. Only through his problematic friendship with Ratzo can Buck reclaim his humanity. The palpable sense of comradeship between Voight and Hoffman—two young method actors working at the height of their powers—pushes the drama in something rare and sublime.  Cole Smithey

Young people, selected by lottery, slaughter one another with kill-or-be-killed desperation in The Hunger Games. The savagery is a yearly ritual mandated by the tyrannical regime of Panem, a broken nation built, after a terrible war, on the futuristic ruins of North America. It's also broadcast on live TV, a national media event. This horrific vision of a near future in which teenagers are in peril is sickening, but the individual heroism of some who fight is also thrilling, as millions of readers can attest: Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a literary sensation. The good news now coming out of Panem, both for those who already know just how brutal the Games become and those who are new to the dystopian tale, is that the movie adaptation knows how to play too. - Lisa Schwarzbaum/EW

Young people, selected by lottery, slaughter one another with kill-or-be-killed desperation in The Hunger Games. The savagery is a yearly ritual mandated by the tyrannical regime of Panem, a broken nation built, after a terrible war, on the futuristic ruins of North America. It's also broadcast on live TV, a national media event. This horrific vision of a near future in which teenagers are in peril is sickening, but the individual heroism of some who fight is also thrilling, as millions of readers can attest: Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a literary sensation. The good news now coming out of Panem, both for those who already know just how brutal the Games become and those who are new to the dystopian tale, is that the movie adaptation knows how to play too. - Lisa Schwarzbaum/EW

Young people, selected by lottery, slaughter one another with kill-or-be-killed desperation in The Hunger Games. The savagery is a yearly ritual mandated by the tyrannical regime of Panem, a broken nation built, after a terrible war, on the futuristic ruins of North America. It's also broadcast on live TV, a national media event. This horrific vision of a near future in which teenagers are in peril is sickening, but the individual heroism of some who fight is also thrilling, as millions of readers can attest: Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a literary sensation. The good news now coming out of Panem, both for those who already know just how brutal the Games become and those who are new to the dystopian tale, is that the movie adaptation knows how to play too. - Lisa Schwarzbaum/EW

Like any master of the art, Jiro, who is 85, can show you how a trick works, let you see the details, and yet it still mystifies anyway. That is the hallmark of true magic. But while other magicians work with top hats and rabbits, Jiro works with sushi. His restaurant, a tiny, 10-seat spot in a Tokyo subway station, is widely acclaimed as home to the greatest sushi in the world.

Jiro is obsessed with sushi. What is the old adage? Find something you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life? Perhaps. But Jiro lives to work. He detests holidays, can't wait to get back to the restaurant, get back to toiling at his chosen path: to make better sushi. Yes, his may be the best there is, but that's not good enough for him. The title is telling -- Jiro dreams of making better sushi, despite working at it non-stop for 70 years.  - Bill Goodykoontz/AZ Republic

All the charm and glossy humor of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy emerges faithfully in this British production. Apart from a few minor cuts, director Anthony Asquith has taken few liberties with the original. His skilful direction extracts all the polish of Wilde's brilliant dialog.

Michael Redgrav brings a wealth of sincerity to the role of the earnest young man, without knowledge of his origin, whose invention of a fictitious brother leads to romantic complications. Michael Denison plays the debonair Algernon Moncrieff in a gay lighthearted style, and makes his characterization the pivot for much of the comedy. -Variety

Young people, selected by lottery, slaughter one another with kill-or-be-killed desperation in The Hunger Games. The savagery is a yearly ritual mandated by the tyrannical regime of Panem, a broken nation built, after a terrible war, on the futuristic ruins of North America. It's also broadcast on live TV, a national media event. This horrific vision of a near future in which teenagers are in peril is sickening, but the individual heroism of some who fight is also thrilling, as millions of readers can attest: Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a literary sensation. The good news now coming out of Panem, both for those who already know just how brutal the Games become and those who are new to the dystopian tale, is that the movie adaptation knows how to play too. - Lisa Schwarzbaum/EW

Terence Davies’ crushing new film, The Deep Blue Sea, based on Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play, earns a place alongside Letter From An Unknown Woman and The Heiress, those beautiful romantic tragedies about women whose love curdles and rots when they get nothing in return. The difference is that Hester Collyer (Weisz), Rattigan’s heroine, cannot fairly blame her lover for failing to live up to her impossible expectations. The painful journey in The Deep Blue Sea isn’t about unrequited passion or betrayal—though there’s plenty of both—but about Hester taking ownership of who she is and struggling, with heartbreaking conviction, to find some perspective on the wreckage that she’s made of her life.

As the amusingly named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, Blunt helps a Middle Eastern Sheik (Amr Waked) fulfill his madcap dream of salmon fishing in his desert home. To do this she enlists a by-the-numbers fisheries official, Fred Jones (McGregor), who's naturally against the idea of building a river in the VERY dry desert but the scheme is none-the-less put in motion by PR whiz Patricia Maxwell (an over-the-top Kristin Scott Thomas), who intrigues the Parliament which convinces the Prime Minister this is the perfect international goodwill mission. As Talbot and Jones get deeper into the effort to bring the fish over, they become ‘fish out of water' too, particularly as an attraction blooms.

As the amusingly named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, Blunt helps a Middle Eastern Sheik (Amr Waked) fulfill his madcap dream of salmon fishing in his desert home. To do this she enlists a by-the-numbers fisheries official, Fred Jones (McGregor), who's naturally against the idea of building a river in the VERY dry desert but the scheme is none-the-less put in motion by PR whiz Patricia Maxwell (an over-the-top Kristin Scott Thomas), who intrigues the Parliament which convinces the Prime Minister this is the perfect international goodwill mission. As Talbot and Jones get deeper into the effort to bring the fish over, they become ‘fish out of water' too, particularly as an attraction blooms.

Terence Davies’ crushing new film, The Deep Blue Sea, based on Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play, earns a place alongside Letter From An Unknown Woman and The Heiress, those beautiful romantic tragedies about women whose love curdles and rots when they get nothing in return. The difference is that Hester Collyer (Weisz), Rattigan’s heroine, cannot fairly blame her lover for failing to live up to her impossible expectations. The painful journey in The Deep Blue Sea isn’t about unrequited passion or betrayal—though there’s plenty of both—but about Hester taking ownership of who she is and struggling, with heartbreaking conviction, to find some perspective on the wreckage that she’s made of her life.

As the amusingly named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, Blunt helps a Middle Eastern Sheik (Amr Waked) fulfill his madcap dream of salmon fishing in his desert home. To do this she enlists a by-the-numbers fisheries official, Fred Jones (McGregor), who's naturally against the idea of building a river in the VERY dry desert but the scheme is none-the-less put in motion by PR whiz Patricia Maxwell (an over-the-top Kristin Scott Thomas), who intrigues the Parliament which convinces the Prime Minister this is the perfect international goodwill mission. As Talbot and Jones get deeper into the effort to bring the fish over, they become ‘fish out of water' too, particularly as an attraction blooms.

As the amusingly named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, Blunt helps a Middle Eastern Sheik (Amr Waked) fulfill his madcap dream of salmon fishing in his desert home. To do this she enlists a by-the-numbers fisheries official, Fred Jones (McGregor), who's naturally against the idea of building a river in the VERY dry desert but the scheme is none-the-less put in motion by PR whiz Patricia Maxwell (an over-the-top Kristin Scott Thomas), who intrigues the Parliament which convinces the Prime Minister this is the perfect international goodwill mission. As Talbot and Jones get deeper into the effort to bring the fish over, they become ‘fish out of water' too, particularly as an attraction blooms.

Terence Davies’ crushing new film, The Deep Blue Sea, based on Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play, earns a place alongside Letter From An Unknown Woman and The Heiress, those beautiful romantic tragedies about women whose love curdles and rots when they get nothing in return. The difference is that Hester Collyer (Weisz), Rattigan’s heroine, cannot fairly blame her lover for failing to live up to her impossible expectations. The painful journey in The Deep Blue Sea isn’t about unrequited passion or betrayal—though there’s plenty of both—but about Hester taking ownership of who she is and struggling, with heartbreaking conviction, to find some perspective on the wreckage that she’s made of her life.

As the amusingly named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, Blunt helps a Middle Eastern Sheik (Amr Waked) fulfill his madcap dream of salmon fishing in his desert home. To do this she enlists a by-the-numbers fisheries official, Fred Jones (McGregor), who's naturally against the idea of building a river in the VERY dry desert but the scheme is none-the-less put in motion by PR whiz Patricia Maxwell (an over-the-top Kristin Scott Thomas), who intrigues the Parliament which convinces the Prime Minister this is the perfect international goodwill mission. As Talbot and Jones get deeper into the effort to bring the fish over, they become ‘fish out of water' too, particularly as an attraction blooms.

As the amusingly named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, Blunt helps a Middle Eastern Sheik (Amr Waked) fulfill his madcap dream of salmon fishing in his desert home. To do this she enlists a by-the-numbers fisheries official, Fred Jones (McGregor), who's naturally against the idea of building a river in the VERY dry desert but the scheme is none-the-less put in motion by PR whiz Patricia Maxwell (an over-the-top Kristin Scott Thomas), who intrigues the Parliament which convinces the Prime Minister this is the perfect international goodwill mission. As Talbot and Jones get deeper into the effort to bring the fish over, they become ‘fish out of water' too, particularly as an attraction blooms.

Terence Davies’ crushing new film, The Deep Blue Sea, based on Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play, earns a place alongside Letter From An Unknown Woman and The Heiress, those beautiful romantic tragedies about women whose love curdles and rots when they get nothing in return. The difference is that Hester Collyer (Weisz), Rattigan’s heroine, cannot fairly blame her lover for failing to live up to her impossible expectations. The painful journey in The Deep Blue Sea isn’t about unrequited passion or betrayal—though there’s plenty of both—but about Hester taking ownership of who she is and struggling, with heartbreaking conviction, to find some perspective on the wreckage that she’s made of her life.

As the amusingly named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, Blunt helps a Middle Eastern Sheik (Amr Waked) fulfill his madcap dream of salmon fishing in his desert home. To do this she enlists a by-the-numbers fisheries official, Fred Jones (McGregor), who's naturally against the idea of building a river in the VERY dry desert but the scheme is none-the-less put in motion by PR whiz Patricia Maxwell (an over-the-top Kristin Scott Thomas), who intrigues the Parliament which convinces the Prime Minister this is the perfect international goodwill mission. As Talbot and Jones get deeper into the effort to bring the fish over, they become ‘fish out of water' too, particularly as an attraction blooms.

Terence Davies’ crushing new film, The Deep Blue Sea, based on Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play, earns a place alongside Letter From An Unknown Woman and The Heiress, those beautiful romantic tragedies about women whose love curdles and rots when they get nothing in return. The difference is that Hester Collyer (Weisz), Rattigan’s heroine, cannot fairly blame her lover for failing to live up to her impossible expectations. The painful journey in The Deep Blue Sea isn’t about unrequited passion or betrayal—though there’s plenty of both—but about Hester taking ownership of who she is and struggling, with heartbreaking conviction, to find some perspective on the wreckage that she’s made of her life.

As the amusingly named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, Blunt helps a Middle Eastern Sheik (Amr Waked) fulfill his madcap dream of salmon fishing in his desert home. To do this she enlists a by-the-numbers fisheries official, Fred Jones (McGregor), who's naturally against the idea of building a river in the VERY dry desert but the scheme is none-the-less put in motion by PR whiz Patricia Maxwell (an over-the-top Kristin Scott Thomas), who intrigues the Parliament which convinces the Prime Minister this is the perfect international goodwill mission. As Talbot and Jones get deeper into the effort to bring the fish over, they become ‘fish out of water' too, particularly as an attraction blooms.

As the amusingly named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, Blunt helps a Middle Eastern Sheik (Amr Waked) fulfill his madcap dream of salmon fishing in his desert home. To do this she enlists a by-the-numbers fisheries official, Fred Jones (McGregor), who's naturally against the idea of building a river in the VERY dry desert but the scheme is none-the-less put in motion by PR whiz Patricia Maxwell (an over-the-top Kristin Scott Thomas), who intrigues the Parliament which convinces the Prime Minister this is the perfect international goodwill mission. As Talbot and Jones get deeper into the effort to bring the fish over, they become ‘fish out of water' too, particularly as an attraction blooms.

Joseph Cedar's outstanding Israeli drama, one of this year's Foreign Language Oscar nominees, pores with gentle intensity over Old Testament-size conflicts between an elderly father and his grown son. Both are scholars in the arcane field of Talmudic studies. Both are rich with the human flaws of pride and envy. Exquisitely assembled, with a pointedly grand musical score to emphasize the titanic (and at times hilarious) nature of filial duty, Footnote is itself a perfect little piece of Talmud, full of text, commentary, and colorful argument.Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW

Joseph Cedar's outstanding Israeli drama, one of this year's Foreign Language Oscar nominees, pores with gentle intensity over Old Testament-size conflicts between an elderly father and his grown son. Both are scholars in the arcane field of Talmudic studies. Both are rich with the human flaws of pride and envy. Exquisitely assembled, with a pointedly grand musical score to emphasize the titanic (and at times hilarious) nature of filial duty, Footnote is itself a perfect little piece of Talmud, full of text, commentary, and colorful argument.Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW

As the amusingly named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, Blunt helps a Middle Eastern Sheik (Amr Waked) fulfill his madcap dream of salmon fishing in his desert home. To do this she enlists a by-the-numbers fisheries official, Fred Jones (McGregor), who's naturally against the idea of building a river in the VERY dry desert but the scheme is none-the-less put in motion by PR whiz Patricia Maxwell (an over-the-top Kristin Scott Thomas), who intrigues the Parliament which convinces the Prime Minister this is the perfect international goodwill mission. As Talbot and Jones get deeper into the effort to bring the fish over, they become ‘fish out of water' too, particularly as an attraction blooms.