Being a comedy, it naturally all works out nicely - he's having a good time and all, but grandad's ancient folk lore comes to the fore: its easy enough to hook a fish, but to land him, he's got to want to jump into the dinghy. Again, there's no deployment of their best weapon (and by now he's certainly interested in her): showing him he's not wanted is the way to make him want to stay.

There's other good stuff that happens along the way, quite a lot of gentle humour of the "you have to be there" variety and, also echoing Ned Devine, trickery against (a) the bank to get the money to help establish the factory and (b) the plastics company, who won't come unless there are 200 plus people. The problem is that there are 120 inhabitants, tops, and the factory people want to see 200. There are several great pictures on the US distributor's website, http://www.wellspring.com.

Ooh - there's one other thing I have to mention from the opening scenes. The film opens when the villagers are still gainfully employed in their fishing: they come home, they eat dinner and then, all at the same time, the men go upstairs with their wives and satisfy them simultaneously, and then have a smoke. Cute. Cut to when the fishing is gone: now their synchronised action is going by the post office to pick up the dole cheque and cashing it at the bank.

So, its not a clever movie, there isn't any fancy tricksiness: it is just a nice, warm funny one. You need them every so often.