House of Sand and Fog

Year			2003
Genre			Drama
Rating			13+
Parents			Violence, offensive language, sexual content
Length			2:06
Director			Vadim Perelman
Writer			Andre Dubus III Vadim Perelman
Studio			Dreamworks
Starring			Jennifer Connelly Ben Kingsley Ron Eldard Frances Fisher Kim Dickens Shohreh Aghdashloo Show more... Jennifer Connelly Ben Kingsley Ron Eldard Frances Fisher Kim Dickens Shohreh Aghdashloo Jonathan Ahdout Navi Rawat Carlos Gómez Kia Jam Jaleh Modjallal Samira Damavandi Matthew Simonian Namrata Singh Gujral Al Faris

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 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.