Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

House of sand and fog / Dreamworks Pictures presents in association with Cobalt Media Group ; a Michael London production ; producer, Michael London, Vadim Perelman ; screenplay, Vadim Perelman and Shawn Lawrence Otto ; director, Vadim Perelman.

Publisher, Date:

Universal City, Calif. : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, [2004]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

metal plastic.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Colonel Behrani is a once-wealthy Iranian immigrant who struggles for dignity while working low-wage jobs in America. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young house cleaner striving to put her life in order. When Kathy's house is mistakenly put up for public auction--and Behrani risks the last of his family fortune to buy it--the two become enmeshed in a desperate conflict.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R; for some violence/disturbing images, language and a scene of sexuality.

Subjects:

Dubus, Andre, III, 1959- -- Film adaptations.

Dwellings -- Drama.

Retired military personnel -- Iran -- Drama.

Iranian Americans -- Drama.

Home ownership -- Drama.

Immigrants -- Drama.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Thrillers (Motion pictures)

Film adaptations.

Other Author:

London, Michael, film producer.

Perelman, Vadim, film producer, screenwriter, film director.

Otto, Shawn Lawrence, screenwriter.

Connelly, Jennifer, actor.

Kingsley, Ben, 1943- actor.

Eldard, Ron, 1964- actor.

Fisher, Frances, 1952- actor.

Dickens, Kim, 1965- actor.

Aghdashloo, Shohreh, 1952- actor.

Ahdout, Jonathan, actor.

Rawat, Navi, actor.

Gomez, Carlos, 1962- actor.

Churgin, Lisa Zeno, 1955- film editor.

Horner, James, composer.

Deakins, Roger A., 1949- director of photography.

Boughton, Drew, art director.

Bahmet, Hala, costume designer.

Javan, Maia, production designer.

Helmer, Richard O., special effects provider.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Dubus, Andre, III, 1959- House of sand and fog.

DreamWorks Pictures (1994-2006), presenter.

Cobalt Media Group, film production company.

DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.

Based on the novel by Andre Dubus III.

Special features: commentary by director Vadim Perelman, actor Ben Kingsley, novelist Andre Dubus III, costume designer, Hala Bahmet, and production designer Maia Javan; deleted scenes and outtakes; cast audition tapes; behind-the-scenes featurette; photo gallery.

Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; art director, Drew Boughton ; editor, Lisa Zeno Churgin ; original music, James Horner ; costume designer, Hala Bahmet ; production designer, Maia Javan ; special effects director, Richard O. Helmer.

Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Frances Fisher, Kim Dickens, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jonathan Ahdout, Navi Rawat, Carlos Gómez.

DVD; NTSC, Region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; 5.1 Dolby Digital.

English and French audio tracks with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned

LCCN:

2005641117

ISBN:

0783288093

9780783288093

Publisher Number:

90977

Other Number:

55495371

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

1058556

# Local items in:

3

# System items in:

3

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE House of