House of Sand and Fog
14,406
Drama
Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben Kingsley) is living a lie to fulfill a dream. Once a member of the Shah of Iran's elite inner circle, he has brought his family to America to build a new life. Despite a pretense of continued affluence, he is barely making ends meet until he sees his opportunity in the auction of a house being sold for back taxes. It is a terrible mistake. Through a bureaucratic snafu, the house has been improperly seized from ... [+]
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United States | Variety | "A faithful, powerful and superbly acted adaptation of Andre Dubus III's international bestseller." | POS |
United States | ReelViews | "This is a hard, challenging motion picture. It demands much from the audience, and repays that investment with powerful, engrossing drama that does not offer insulting, facile answers" | POS |
United Kingdom | Empire | "There's a desperately inevitable, powerfully tragic last reel, but getting there is absolute torture" | NEU |
United States | Austin Chronicle | "A sterling example of what Hollywood can accomplish when it puts its trust into an offbeat project whose creative team has a different perspective on American life" | POS |
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