A review from the Snob:

House of Sand of Fog. (C-) The reviews have been very favorable, but I just couldn't embrace this film. Maybe it hurt me that I haven't read the book. The premise is that Jennifer Connelly is a single woman whose house in San Francisco is seized by the county and sold at a tax auction. Ben Kingsley is an Iranian expatriate who buys it for 1/4 of the house's value. Things escalate from there. None of the characters is appealing or sympathetic, and I have a hard time liking any movie like that. I just didn't care for it.