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House of Sand and Fog

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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Variety
Variety
"A faithful, powerful and superbly acted adaptation of Andre Dubus III's international bestseller." POS
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ReelViews
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 KingdomUnited Kingdom
Empire
Empire
"There's a desperately inevitable, powerfully tragic last reel, but getting there is absolute torture" NEU
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Austin Chronicle
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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