House of Sand and Fog

Director: Vadim Perelman
Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Frances Fisher, Kim Dickens
Genre: Drama 2003
Running time: 126 mins.
Rating:★★★

Two strangers, Kathy and Behrani (Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley) whose conflicting pursuits of the American Dream lead to a fight for their hopes at any cost. What begins as a struggle over a rundown bungalow spirals into a clash that propels everyone involved toward a shocking resolution.

Both characters are living a lie, so that the outside world won't see whats really going on behind closed doors. Kathy (Connelly) has given up on life as she lives in a home that she and her brother inherited from her late father. You soon find out that her husband has left her within the last eight months, she has been ignoring bills, and therefore, she has been evicted from her home. Yet, she tells her family none of this.

Behrani's (Kingsley) lives a life of luxury with a beautiful apartment, a loving wife, a daughter that married to a man of wealth, and a teenage son. The truth is that he and his family live in an apartment that they can't afford, he works construction, and works at a gas station. What ties the two together is a bungalow, the same house that Kathy was evicted from and the same house Behrani buys in hope to give his family a better life. Rash and violent decisions are made when the two characters butt heads, which bring the two together and away from the lies they live behind.