The screenplay by Perelman and Shawn Lawrence Otto is based on the novel of the same name by Andre Dubus III.
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Even though he was a high-ranking official in Iran, he works several menial jobs in order to provide his wife, Nadi (Shohreh Aghdashloo), and his son, Esmail (Jonathan Ahdout), with an apartment in California. To be sure, they sometimes do bad things, but the movie understands them and their flaws. Ben Kingsley plays Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant living the United States. If we allow ourselves to … House of Sand and Fog is a 2003 American drama film directed by Vadim Perelman. „Es ist insbesondere die Gabe von Haus aus Sand und Nebel, uns Antagonisten zu zeigen, die … gleichzeitig recht und unrecht haben.“ (“It is the particular gift of 'House of Sand and Fog' to present us with antagonists who … are simultaneously right and wrong.”) (Kenneth Turan – Los Angeles Times) The story concerns the battle between a young woman and an immigrant Iranian family over the ownership of a house in Northern California, which ultimately leads to the destruction of four lives. Neither protagonist is lionized or demonized. The screenplay by Perelman and Shawn Lawrence Otto is based on the novel of the same name by Andre Dubus III . It was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 2000, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, and was adapted into the 2003 film, House of Sand and Fog. Exhausted and humiliated from also working a night job as a clerk in a convenience store, Behrani decides to buy a property at an auction. The house was repossessed for tax payment delinquency. If a house is “repossessed,” it is legally taken away from its current owners (usually by the bank or local government). Amazon Review. 12 March 2020. This guide references the First Vintage Contemporaries edition originally published in March 2000. He buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send Esmail to college. Conflict is said to be the basis of popular fiction, and yet here is a film that seizes us with its first scene and never lets go, and we feel sympathy all the way through for everyone in it.