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	Encyclopedia: House of Sand and Fog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		House of Sand and Fog is a novel by Andre Dubus III.
		A Persian Iranian immigrant (Kingsley) who was required to flee from Iran during times of conflict now lives in America working many odd jobs to support his family all the while keeping up the appearence of holding the position of a respected businessman to his family.
		The previous owner was wrongfully evicted from the house that her father left her at his passing for the petty unpaid tax bill of $500.
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	House of Sand and Fog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Two lives crash headfirst into each other and begin a rapid descent in House of Sand and Fog, adapted from the best-selling novel by Andre Dubus III (it was one of Oprah's Book Club selections) are directed remarkably by Vadim Perelman, even better considering it is the first movie he's made.
		When he finds the house for auction, he knows it is a good deal, since he can spend some money to refurbish it and sell it for a nice profit.
		House of Sand and Fog can only end up in one place, and Perelman, who adapted the novel with Shawn Lawrence Otto, moves things forward at a steady pace.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/house_of_sand_and_fog.html (881 words)

	A Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		The view from the house along the West Coast is spectacular, and this may prevent the occupants from looking within them to see what part they have in their dire situations.
		House of Sand and Fog begins with Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), minus a husband, being evicted from the house she inherited from her father.
		The woman discovers that the house was wrongly taken from her, however, and with the help of Lester, a police officer (played by Ron Eldard) she endeavors to get the house back.
	www.tollbooth.org /2004/movies/fog.html (1795 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: House of Sand and Fog review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		House of Sand and Fog is a film with a very simple theme - it is people, not property, that ultimately matters most - yet it is so heavy-handed and overloaded with unbelievable plot contrivances that it ultimately collapses like a house of cards.
		I was not a fan of House of Sand and Fog as a film, but I was of its visual style, which is magnificent.
		House of Sand and Fog also sounds very, very good, although its sound design is somewhat subdued compared to the visual splendor of its photography.
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	House of Sand and Fog (2003): Reviews
		But House of Sand and Fog has a story to tell and it means to tell it, no matter what the cost.
		House of Sand and Fog is artful until it lunges for Art.
		The heartbreakingly fine Iranian actress is only a subsidiary character in House of Sand and Fog...But she is the soul of this pungent film.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/houseofsandandfog (1570 words)

	House of Sand and Fog (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The two characters are drawn together, appropriately enough, by the house of the title, a small but elegant coastal property in fictional Pacific County, California (the novel sets the house in Malibu).
		The house belongs to Kathy, who inherited it (along with her older brother, who lives elsewhere) from her deceased father.
		The house is seen in an early flashback, an eerie montage wherein a younger Behrani in full-dress service uniform observes as a row of enormous trees are severed at the trunk so that the sea will be visible from the balcony where he stands.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0315983 (848 words)

	Filmtracks: House of Sand and Fog (James Horner)
		House of Sand and Fog: (James Horner) Pushed by Dreamworks to a release date as late in 2003 as possible, House of Sand and Fog has always been a project with high Oscar hopes.
		The year 2003 has been one exclusively dominated by dramatic efforts of all sizes by Horner, for whom House of Sand and Fog is the fourth and final score of the year.
		The most typical (and maybe a tad tiresome) use of instrumentation in House of Sand and Fog is the rumbling of the piano and woodwinds on bass notes accentuated by a tolling chime or bell.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/house_sand_fog.html (1192 words)

	Ritz Filmbill: Movie Synopsis: House of Sand and Fog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A gripping exploration of the American Dream gone awry, House of Sand and Fog is the story of two people driven to desperate measures to claim ownership of a house.
		House of Sand and Fog exposes the unsettling truth that it is sometimes our hopes and not our hatreds that divide us.
		Ben Kingsley in House of Sand and Fog
	www.ritzfilmbill.com /editorial/synopses/houseofsandandfog.shtml (448 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: House of Sand and Fog
		After she is evicted, she drives past her house in disbelief, seeing this foreigner with his family and his furniture, and one night she sleeps in her car, right outside the gate.
		And a crisis when the Behranis, whose family is threatened by this woman, simplify everything with one simple sentence: "We have a guest in the house." And a subtle subtext in the way Nadi Behrani (Shohreh Aghdashloo), Massoud's wife, treats the sad girl as a mother would, while hardly understanding a word she says.
		To admire a story you must be willing to listen to the people and observe them, and at the end of "House of Sand and Fog," we have seen good people with good intentions who have their lives destroyed because they had the bad luck to come across a weak person with shabby desires.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/20031226/REVIEWS/312260302/1023 (995 words)

	House of Sand and Fog (2003) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		House of Sand and Fog opens with a highway crew composed of several nationalities picking up litter on a hot California summer day.
		After she is thrown out of the house she grew up in--wrongly, it turns out, so she seeks legal representation--Massoud Amir Behrani (Kingsley) buys the property at auction with the goal of selling it at a huge profit so his family can live a better life.
		When he buys the house at auction, it is his chance to have a part of the American dream and to restore his position in the community, and perhaps more importantly, in his own mind.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /house_sand.htm (3546 words)

	IGN: Interview: Sir Ben Kingsley, Jennifer Connelly
		December 17, 2003 - House of Sand and Fog is based on the 1999 novel by Andre Dubus III.
		She is evicted from her house because of a government error regarding her taxes.
		House of Sand and Fog is directed by first time feature director Vadim Perelman, who also adapted the screenplay.
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	House of Sand and Fog - Movie Review
		In Vadim Perelman's assured directorial debut 'House of Sand and Fog', the stubborn personalities and mutual misunderstandings of the three main characters create a compelling tragedy of contested houses, broken homes and demolished dreams.
		Connelly has already played a woman whose life is shattered by addiction and dumb luck in 'Requiem for a Dream', and 'House of Sand and Fog' evokes that earlier film by painstakingly reenacting its central image of her standing at the end of a pier, looking out to sea.
		House of Sand and Fog at the IMDB
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on House of Sand and Fog at Epinions.com
		The irony of the film House of Sand and Fog is that the very scenario described in the aforementioned paragraph is not just indicative of the "hero" of the film, Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), but also her adversary, the former Persian Colonel Massoud Behrani.
		Seeing a chance to move up in life, he buys Kathy's house, planning to make some renovations and sell it for enough of a profit to pay for his son's college, and provide for his family as he believes it is his duty to do.
		Those relatively minor criticisms aside, House of Sand and Fog is certainly one of the best movies of 2003 that I saw, and I would gladly recommend this film to those who don't mind a sad third act.
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	Review: House of Sand and Fog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		All she has in the world is the house left to her by her father when he died, and now that is being taken away.
		His purchase of the house is done legally and properly, and he has legitimate reasons for not giving it up.
		And, as the story unfolds, the house becomes not just a battleground between two people divided by an unsolvable ethical situation, but a struggle between two cultures - the natural-born citizen who is losing the last vestiges of her dream and the immigrant who is struggling to get a grip on his own.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/h/house_sand.html (1124 words)

	House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
		House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
		Kathy Niccolo is a recovering alcoholic and addict whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won stability slip away from her.
		Drawn by their competing desires to the same small house in the California hills—and what it represents to each of them—and doomed by their tragic inability to understand one another, the three converge on an explosive collision course.
	kemodogstar.tripod.com /Books/house.html (212 words)

	HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG review
		House of Sand And Fog is based on the novel of the same title by Andre Dubus III.
		Kathy’s neglect of the house her father labored to secure produces eviction and destruction; Lester takes his wife and children for granted, selfishly abandons them, only to end up in a run-down cabin with Kathy; Behrani’s diligence repairs and improves the house – and is aimed at improving his dear family, as well.
		The fog clears enough for Kathy to be salvaged by the very folks who unwittingly stole her home.
	www.subtletea.com /houseofsandandfogreview.htm (1724 words)

	House Of Sand And Fog London Movie Review
		House of Sand and Fog is cut from the same cloth as similar ‘feel bad’ movies such as In The Bedroom, with which it shares certain thematic similarities — perhaps it’s not such a coincidence, as the author of House of Sand and Fog is the son of the author of In The Bedroom.
		As the film opens, she is evicted from the house she owns (a small bungalow in Northern California) because she has hasn’t been opening her mail and has neglected to pay various taxes.
		Keen followers of Connelly’s career may also be amused to learn that House of Sand and Fog even has a shot of her looking contemplative on the end of a pier, just like the identical shots in both Requiem For A Dream and Dark City.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /review_1978.html (579 words)

	House Of Sand and Fog film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		House of Sand and Fog will be released on R1 DVD in the US on 30th March 2004.
		House Of Sand and Fog is based on the novel by Andre Dubus III.
		House Of Sand and Fog will tell the tale of a sheriff who falls in love with an alcoholic and tries to take bake a house she once owned.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/h/houseofsandandfog.htm (967 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG by Andre Dubus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Andre Dubus III's House of Sand and Fog, a uniquely American tragedy of taut suspense and profound emotional impact.
		But the house has been auctioned because of a bureaucratic error, and Behrani's fragile plans are jeopardized when Kathy Nicolo, the owner of the house, begins to protest the sale.
		The contested ownership of the house on Bisgrove Street is the fulcrum of the novel's plot.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/house_of_sand_and_fog.asp (1061 words)

	MCN: The House of Sand & Fog
		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.
		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...
		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.
	www.moviecitynews.com /arrays/house_of_sand_fog.html (252 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: House of Sand and Fog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When her house in the California hills is mistakenly seized by the county for back taxes and sold at public auction, she finds herself living out of her car and on the brink of desperation.
		The characters in House of Sand and Fog, despite their annoying personal habits, were totally believable and evoked sympathy with this reader.
		In the end he is driven to despair and takes the action of a truly desperate man. Believing infomercials and acting on their advice might do this to some people.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375727345 (1529 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: House of Sand and Fog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In House of Sand and Fog, Kathy (Connelly) gets evicted from her house for failing to pay a tax she never should have been charged in the first place.
		U.K. House of Sand and fog is one of the most moving films of recent times.
		While "House of Sand and Fog" is beautifully shot and directed, loaded with fabulous performances by top-notch actors and does a great job developing the plot, characters and story, it manages to be a dissapointing movie.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001DMVBC (1450 words)

	Gloom With a View - The sadness of House of Sand and Fog. By David Edelstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kathy inherited the house from her father (who worked hard to pay off its mortgage for 30 years) but has been, until now, indifferent to its value.
		Although she does have a lawyer (Frances Fisher), the woman is low-rent, stridently left-wing, and not especially effective in getting the county to house Kathy as efficiently as it sent her into the cold.
		After the opening eviction, there are no county or bank officials to be seen in House of Sand and Fog—no sense of anyone but her vigilante lover-boy on this woman's poor side.
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	The House of Sand and Fog (2003) - A Review by David Nusair
		What he doesn't realize is that the house's former owner, a woman named Kathy Nicolo (Jennifer Connelly), was wrongfully evicted and has begun taking steps to get her home back.
		The House of Sand and Fog marks Vadim Perelman's directorial debut, and it's clear that he's got a real future ahead of him.
		The House of Sand and Fog is clearly one of the best films of the year, but probably won't be recognized come award season due to the downbeat nature of the story.
	www.reelfilm.com /housefog.htm (639 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Andre Dubus III
		His novel, HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, was a nominee for the 1999 National Book Award in Fiction.
		I worked on HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG for four years, and my wife didn't hear a word about it until I was done.
		Well, there was this story about this woman who was living in her car outside this house that she'd been wrongfully evicted from.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-dubus-andre.asp (2561 words)

	New York Post Online Edition: movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kathy turns to a sympathetic legal aid attorney (Frances Fisher) for help in regaining the house, but when Massoud won't budge, she lashes out at the lawyer.
		Fellow Oscar-winner Connelly ("A Beautiful Mind") is likewise at the top of her game - but it's Shoreh Aghdashloo, a little-known Iranian actress, who gives the year's most searingly unforgettable performance as Massoud's doomed wife, Nadi, who is ultimately torn between her loyalty to her husband and her sympathy for Connelly.
		"House of Sand and Fog" is a grim, challenging movie that will amply reward audiences willing to go along with its ride into the dark depths of its characters' souls.
	www.nypost.com /movies/13855.htm (436 words)

	LA Weekly: Features: Heavy Weather
		Behrani sees the house on Bisgrove Street as an investment opportunity and, as soon as he has moved his family in, begins making improvements, planning to sell as soon as possible for several times what he paid for the house and begin to reclaim his lost wealth and social standing.
		The House of Sand and Fog is adapted from Andre Dubus III’s fine 1999 novel, which was short-listed for a National Book Award and, armed with an Oprah nod, became a national best-seller.
		The screenplay for The House of Sand and Fog, which was adapted by Perelman and Shawn Lawrence Otto, is faithful enough to the novel’s external dialogue, but absent its seething inwardness, it feels trite and detached from real speech.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/04/04/features-taylor3.php (1067 words)

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