Movie Review: House of Sand and Fog

God was this depressing.  Oh boy.  I watched this because I had never seen it, we owned it, and knew it was supposed to be good.  It was one of those movies where you know from the first few minutes that it won't end well and it is going to be incredibly depressing.  It is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

The movie is about a woman who gets evicted from her house due to a mix up at the tax office and the man who buys it for his family.  She has her family coming to visit her and doesn't want them to know her life is in the shitter and he is barely able to make ends meet and need to flip the house at a profit in order to get money to pay for his son's up coming college education.

You can already tell that this isn't going to have a happy ending.  The cinematography is beautiful and the acting is superb and the movie is very well done.  It shows how simple acts of desperation can lead to even more depressing endings.

If you are looking for a "good" movie: watch this.  If you like depressing movies: you'll love this.  If you are looking for a feel good movie: run far away from this one.