House of Sand and Fog (2003)

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Avg Rating: 3.9 / 5. Voted: 21

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Directed by: Vadim Perelman
Starring: Ben Kingsley (Behrani), Jennifer Connelly (Kathy), Ron Eldard (Burdon), Shohreh Aghdashloo (Nadi), Jonathan Ahdout (Esmail)
Country: United States
Language: English (Eng Subs)
Runtime: 02:06:07
Genres: Misery-Depression

Plot – Spoilers:
A recovering addict Kathy lives alone in her father’s house in a state of disarray and lacking motivation. She receives a call from her mother who plans on visiting her in a couple of weeks. This sets off panic mode for Kathy as she sees herself as a fuck-up – her family is also unaware that Kathy’s husband has dumped her recently. The day gets worse when local authorities turn up to evict her for alleged nonpayment of taxes, the notices for which she hadn’t bothered to read for months.

Deputy Sheriff Burdon whose marriage is winding down takes an interest in Kathy and helps her in moving out. But Kathy isn’t about to let go of a house her father took 30 years to finally own.

Meanwhile Behrani, a former colonel who fled Iran during the Revolution is close to going broke. He lives with his wife and son in an opulent apartment while secretly working low-paying jobs. Behrani is stuck in the memories of glorious and fine times and has been pulling a social facade not just to marry his daughter into a respectable American-Iranian family, but also to avoid feeling a failure in his wife’s eyes. He ends up buying Kathy’s house during the auction and the two soon begin a destructive battle over ownership.

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movienthusiast11
movienthusiast11
January 17, 2022 11:23 am

man this movie is beautiful

Yeux
Yeux
November 23, 2021 8:16 pm

It was a pretty nice movie. Kinda sad that everything ended bad for everyone involved just because the incompetence of the entity in charge of the taxes and all that (unless i missed something and it was actually the girl’s fault for her to lose the house).

She was pretty retarded because ”muh depression” and didn’t opened the notices. Maybe if she actually opened the fucking notices, the mistake by that entity could have been avoided.

I think the cop represents the supreme simp. Some idiot that sees a girl in trouble and ”depressed” and throws everything away for her, to the point of making things that are already bad, even worse, just because the pussy. I fucking hate simps.

Really good movie.

Dee
Dee
September 8, 2021 3:28 am

Misery-depressing is right. This movie do be hitting different, very pleasant surprise. Loved it!

bies
bies
June 17, 2021 5:05 pm

What a pity! In the first of the film we have it all: excellent actors who display a difficult situation in which people, who all mean well, end up in a situation in which there cannot be a true winner. In real live, probably mediation would have solved the problem. Here it becomes a Hollywood B-movie, with marriage problems, a nice boy getting shot, a suicide, and lousy B-film music.

THANKS EUM
THANKS EUM
September 27, 2020 12:14 am

Now this is what I call “LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM”…
Jennifer Connelly is drop dead gorgeous, even to this day. Period.

Yuck
Yuck
Reply to  THANKS EUM
July 28, 2021 5:50 pm

She’s average and looks crusty and old now stop overhyping people

fred fat
fred fat
Reply to  Yuck
November 16, 2021 9:58 pm

u should have gone to specsavers

MoeFo
MoeFo
Reply to  Yuck
August 5, 2023 9:24 pm

“average” OMFG, you’re blind as a bat, and she does NOT look anything like “crusty”. She’s like 53 now and was just snapped on a beach in a bikini and would make any man with a heartbeat sport an 8″ pup tent – even if he only has a 4 1/2″ pecker, you fucking stupid faggot twat.

kami
kami
January 2, 2020 3:40 pm

dude that fucking cop annoyed the shit out of me. i hate americans

Mike Ehrmantraut
Mike Ehrmantraut
Reply to  kami
April 9, 2020 8:13 am

I’m thinking most Americans probably aren’t real fond of you either, Hadji….

James
James
Reply to  kami
June 22, 2020 11:50 pm

You mean white people, I’m American but black unless you mean anyone born in America.

Papa Smurf
Papa Smurf
Reply to  James
August 12, 2020 6:26 am

He means you too, Leroy…. get over yourself, racist prick.

bleh
bleh
Reply to  James
January 27, 2021 4:54 pm

Get off the Internet sometime, man. The media has you brainwashed thinking that all white people are the devil. Truth is we’re all of the human race (not the color race), and we all have the potential for good and evil. I bet you’ve had some pretty nasty thoughts and desires in fits of desperation, resentment, etc. as well, sunshine.

MoeFo
MoeFo
Reply to  James
August 5, 2023 9:41 pm

You mean you’re a racist niggah piece of shit. You must ‘think’ that black lives actually matter or some retarded shit like that. You must have voted for the life-long lying bull-shit artist who’s had mad cow disease of the brain for at least six years now, and for the rest of the evil party that passed you the straw and showed you the trough full of propaganda to SUCK on all day and night, you imbecilic puppet tool-bag lemming. How’s that working out for you now that the demon-rats have completely destroyed the economy, have ramped up the cost of EVERYTHING by 25 – 65%, opened up the border and put out bulletins for EVERYONE to just waltz into our nation and DEMAND whatever they want, and to even KILL the ability of actual Americans to speak freely?? How is it living on that plantation, leroy? You should read something written by Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams, you idiot fuck-stick, then you wouldn’t disparage white people like an ignorant ass-hat. See? I don’t hate black people, only stupid fuckin niggahs.

Dee
Dee
Reply to  kami
September 8, 2021 3:06 am

Yea, he was the most unlikeable character ever

Aay
Aay
Reply to  kami
December 13, 2021 6:51 pm

Look who’s racist by calling people by stereotypical names ???? Hadji and Leroy that’s not even their names

MoeFo
MoeFo
Reply to  kami
August 5, 2023 9:26 pm

don’t worry you piece of shit, we Americans would all like to punch a hole through your teeth to the back of your neck.

Jesus Refugio Ramirez
Jesus Refugio Ramirez
December 13, 2019 9:08 am

yes! honestly shohreh aghdashloo’s performance is so beautiful in this film she was truly born to play nadi. this is a very tragic film thats still unfortunately relevant to today’s america without being over the top.

MoeFo
MoeFo
Reply to  Jesus Refugio Ramirez
August 5, 2023 9:54 pm

It’s ONLY relevant to today’s America in all democrat-run hell-hole cities. I’ve lived in rural America for 67 years, and it is still paradise just like Mayberry, RFD. It’s almost a half hour to any small city here in Maine, and I stay the fuck out of them as much as possible. Of course they’re filled with retarded liberals, and those assholes try to come out here in the beauty of nature and fuck everything up like where they came from. And they don’t even hunt or fish! Fucking shitbags.