Creepy and unpleasant, this movie makes you feel like you need to take a shower after watching it -- or just simply want to kill yourself.
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12/31/03
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House of Sand and Fog (2003)
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Reviews Counted:166
Fresh:125
Rotten:41
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Powerful and thought provoking film.
Theatrical Release:Dec 19, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $12,924,917
Synopsis: Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly star in the powerful drama HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG as two people fighting over the same house. Connelly is Kathy, a troubled young woman struggling with addiction... [More]
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Jennifer Connelly, Ron Eldard, Jonathan Ahdout
Director: Vadim Perelman
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Reviews for House of Sand and Fog
[T]the plot contrivances make it easy to dismiss. However... Perelman gets such compelling performances from his cast that the film sneaks up on you...
12/31/03
If the holidays have you feeling a bit too giddy, this gloomy movie will knock it out of you.
12/31/03
By the end, you feel as if you’ve been hit over the head with a bloody dead dove, with someone screaming, “Tragedy! Tragedy! Tragedy!” in your sore ear.
12/31/03
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12/30/03
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12/30/03
Without the right combination of actors, House of Sand and Fog could have easily deteriorated into a feature-length melodramatic soap opera.
12/30/03
In a way, it offers an update of the property-dispute plotlines that escalated to tragedy in such Westerns as 'Shane.'
12/29/03
Everything that happens in the movie could have been avoided if Kathy had just opened her freaking mail.
12/27/03
Underneath all the wild gesticulating is nothing: no suspense, no characters, no emotional truth, nothing.
12/27/03
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12/27/03
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.
12/27/03
Top CriticThis is something you just cannot take your eyes off of.
12/27/03
Meticulously acted and unafraid of a difficult subject, House of Sand and Fog resonates with a quality that can be vital to art -- a lack of moral rectitude.
12/27/03
Top CriticFor viewers courageous enough to withstand the bleakest of stories and the most cynical of outcomes, House of Sand and Fog is a challenging motion picture.
12/26/03
The movie's intense watchability can be traced directly to superb performances by Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley.
12/26/03
Top CriticA devastating movie.
12/26/03
House of Sand and Fog doesn't deliver on the gut level of contest, and neither does it offer any other terms in which it does deliver for the audience.
12/26/03
Top CriticKingsley's performance nearly redeems a rather jacked-up finish, and Connelly makes genuine her pathetic character.
12/26/03
A smart, moody film that achieves the delicate balance of having us care about all of its characters.
12/26/03
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