House of Sand and Fog movie

An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her home's new owners.

:This article is about the movie. See House of Sand and Fog (novel) for the book.House of Sand and Fog is a 2003 movie based on the novel of the same name written by Andre Dubus III. The movie, starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly, was directed by Vadim Perelman. It was Perelmans first directorial outing aside from shooting commercials.PlotAn Iranian (Persian) immigrant, Col Massoud Amir Behrani (Kingsley), who fled Iran during times of conflict, now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Working odd jobs to support his family, he keeps up the appearance of being a respected businessman so as not to shame his family, his wife Nadireh (Shohreh Aghdashloo), his son Esmail (Jonathan Ahdout), and his daughter Soraya (Navi Rawat). When given the opportunity to invest in a house being auctioned cheaply because of an unpaid tax, he does so with the intention of renovating the house and selling it for profit. He is overjoyed to learn that the house will be worth four times that which he paid for it.The previous owner, Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), who inherited the house from her father was wrongly evicted from the house due to a government error regarding taxes. She attempts to regain her house and during this time she meets a married policeman named Lester (Ron Eldard), with whom she begins an affair and falls in love.After many futile attempts to get her house back, and believing that Lester has left her to return to his wife, she resolves to kill herself. Finding Lesters police gun in her car she attempts suicide in the drive of her former home. Upon seeing the attempted suicide Colonel Behrani rushes outside and takes the gun from the distraught Kathy, the Behrani family take her in where Mrs.

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House of Sand and Fog Cast

• Al Faris
• Ben Kingsley
• Carlos Gómez
• Frances Fisher
• Jaleh Modjallal
• Jonathan Ahdout
• Kia Jam
• Kim Dickens
• Matthew Simonian
• Namrata Singh Gujral
• Navi Rawat
• Ron Eldard
• Samira Damavandi
• Shohreh Aghdashloo