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House of Sand and Fog

 
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House of Sand and Fog

  • Director: Vadim Perelman
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Psychological Drama
  • Themes: Down on Their Luck, Immigrant Life, Crumbling Marriages
  • Main Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jonathan Ahdout, Frances Fisher
  • Release Year: 2003
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 126 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: R

Plot

Russian filmmaker Vadim Perelman makes his feature-film debut with the psychological drama House of Sand and Fog, based on the novel by Andre Dubus III. 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. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Cast

Kim Dickens - Carol Burdon; Navi Rawat - Soraya Behrani; Carlos Gomez - Lt. Alvarez; Namrata Gujral-Cooper - Wedding Guest

Credit

Drew Boughton - Art Director, Chris Soldo - Associate Producer, Deborah Aquila - Casting, Tricia Wood - Casting, Jeremiah Samuels - Co-producer, Shawn Otto - Co-producer, Hala Bahmet - Costume Designer, Chris Soldo - First Assistant Director, Vadim Perelman - Director, Lisa Churgin - Editor, James Horner - Composer (Music Score), Maia Javan - Production Designer, Roger Deakins - Cinematographer, Michael London - Producer, Vadim Perelman - Producer, Gene Serdena - Set Designer, Gary Diamond - Set Designer, William B. Kaplan - Sound/Sound Designer, Vadim Perelman - Screenwriter, Shawn Otto - Screenwriter, David Stockton - Additional Cinematography, Jerry Ross - Supervising Sound Editor, Skip Lievsay - Supervising Sound Editor, Andre Dubus III - Book Author

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