Academy Award winners Sir Ben Kingsley
("Gandhi") and Jennifer Connelly ("A Beautiful
Mind") star in the drama "House of Sand and
Fog," based on the acclaimed bestseller by Andre
Dubus III.
Massoud Amir Behrani (Sir 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 had been improperly seized from its rightful
owner, Kathy Lazaro (Jennifer Connelly). The loss of
her home tears away Kathy's last hope of a stable
life - a life that had been nearly destroyed by
addiction - and Kathy decides to fight to recover her
home ... at any cost.
"House of Sand and Fog" exposes the unsettling
truth that it is sometimes our hopes and not our
hatreds that drive us to ruin, in a devastating
exploration of the American Dream gone terribly
awry.
The film also stars Ron Eldard ("Black Hawk Down")
as deputy sheriff Lester Burdon, who tries to take
the law into his own hands to help Kathy; major
Iranian film star Shohreh Aghdashloo as Behrani's
wife, Nadi; and Jonathan Ahdout as their son
Esamail.
Btw, this is an adaptation of an Oprah Book Club
book.
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