House of Sand and Fog
Reformed drug addict Kathy Nicolo has her California coast house taken away by the county due to a misunderstanding about back taxes and starts a tragic conflict with her home's new owners.
26 January 1970, Wichita, Kansas, USA
1 January 1962, New York City, New York, USA
15 December 1970, Queens, New York, USA
10 October 1961, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
3 June 1936, Brooklyn, New York, USA
11 May 1952, Tehran, Iran
17 February 1970
7 November 1964, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
10 July 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 December 1934, Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
6 August 1964
18 March 1989, Santa Monica, California, USA
24 November 1948, Yonkers, New York, USA
1959
25 June 1958, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
17 December 1989, Downey, California, USA
3 August 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 September 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
October 18, 2008
A fiercely powerful and melancholy tale about dreams, aspirations and belonging, House of Sand and Fog is a marvellous adaptation.
June 24, 2006
Perelman and his long-suffering stars make a spectacle of pain, but fail to register any lighter notes, while the denouement seems calculated to wring out every last tear.
December 27, 2003
If this movie isn't quite the contempo-Greek tragedy it wants to be, it's still a powerful, almost unforgettable meditation on fate, cultural collision and the morality of renovating a house that isn't really yours.
April 01, 2006
Demanding, provoking and painfully slow. The single most compelling reason for seeing it is the magnificent performance from Kingsley, who deserves every prize on the books.
December 24, 2010
Serious and thoughtful; for mature teens+.
November 01, 2007
The vivid clarity of the images, the compressed fury of the tale, are impossible to get out of your head.
September 26, 2005
If "House of Sand and Fog" ultimately feels like a failed exercise, it has less to do with Perelman's limitations than with a book that would have been better served by staying on the page.
May 09, 2009
A lack of empathetic characters cripples this poorly paced but well acted drama about an Iranian family who purchase a city-auctioned bungalow in Northern California after its former tenant has been unjustly evicted.
July 19, 2005
The dramatic scheme is to show how two people ... intersect "tragically," but what we see is a group of characters who act as wrongheadedly and intransigently as imaginable.
February 04, 2004
You feel you not only know these people but where they come from.
November 18, 2005
Vadim Perelman's "House of Sand and Fog" is one of the low points of the current movie season. But then it's meant to be.
August 07, 2004
Connelly, who has often mistaken posing for acting, digs deep here; Aghdashloo ... gives us a portrait of a woman who is both dutiful to her husband and ravaged by his iron will. Kingsley is most impressive of all.
