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House of Sand and Fog

  R HD Closed Captioning

Vadim Perelman

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Plot Summary

Ben Kingsley plays Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant living the United States. Even though he was a high-ranking official in Iran, he works several menial jobs in order to provide his wife, Nadi (Shohreh Aghdashloo), and his son, Esmail (Jonathan Ahdout), with an apartment in California. He buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send Esmail to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy (Jennifer Connelly). After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer (Frances Fisher) and befriends a police officer (Ron Eldard). Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.

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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews

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75%
  • Reviews Counted: 177
  • Fresh: 132
  • Rotten: 45
  • Average Rating: 7.1/10

Top Critics' Reviews

Fresh: If this movie isn't quite the contempo-Greek tragedy it wants to be, it's still a powerful, almost unforgettable meditation on fate, cultural collision and the morality of renovating a house that isn't really yours. – Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com, Jul 7, 2010

Fresh: The vivid clarity of the images, the compressed fury of the tale, are impossible to get out of your head. – David Ansen, Newsweek, Feb 2, 2014

Fresh: You feel you not only know these people but where they come from. – Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune, Jul 7, 2010

Rotten: House of Sand and Fog doesn't deliver on the gut level of contest, and neither does it offer any other terms in which it does deliver for the audience. – Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 15, 2004

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Customer Reviews

great movie

jennifer connelly top 5 movies

1-requiem for a dream

2-house of sand and fog

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