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Academy Award® winners Sir Ben Kingsley (GANDHI) and Jennifer Connelly (A BEAUTIFUL MIND) star in the dramatic thriller HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, based on the acclaimed bestseller by Andre Dubus Ill.

Massoud Amir Behrani (Sir Ben Kingsley ) is living a lie to fulfill a dream. Once a member of the Shah of Iran’s elite inner circle, Massoud 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 has been improperly seized from its rightful owner, Kathy Nicolo (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.

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.