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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.
















17 February 1970



10 July 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA

28 March 1974, USA


12 August 1954, Queens, New York, USA


19 May 1993, Los Angeles, California, USA

5 June 1977, Malibu, California, USA

19 September 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA



3 August 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA


7 November 1964, Birmingham, Alabama, USA


19 December 1934, Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]

8 May 1995, USA

15 December 1970, Queens, New York, USA


11 May 1952, Milford-on-the-sea, Hampshire, England, UK

24 November 1948, Yonkers, New York, USA

18 March 1989, Santa Monica, California, USA

18 June 1965, Huntsville, Alabama, USA




31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK




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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
December 24, 2010
Serious and thoughtful; for mature teens+.
February 04, 2004
You feel you not only know these people but where they come from.
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.
October 18, 2008
A fiercely powerful and melancholy tale about dreams, aspirations and belonging, House of Sand and Fog is a marvellous adaptation.
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.
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.
November 01, 2007
The vivid clarity of the images, the compressed fury of the tale, are impossible to get out of your head.