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Nearly an entire year where the tenant didn't pay a penny in rent. Laura Dern is also in the movie and does a fantastic job as Garfield's mother. She is the emotional weight that the film needed and brings his character back to the real world when it got too exaggerated. The film will definitely pull on your heart strings at times, especially when you see all sorts of people being ripped from their homes. I just think the structure of the story was unbalanced at times with arcs being a bit too unrealistic. "99 Homes" has an intense beginning that absorbs me into the story.
Films like these tend to not interest me but seeing Michael Shannon and Andrew Garfield together got me excited. 99 Homes is a devastating look at the housing market crash that took place in 2008 and shows the corruption and greed that takes place within this business. Scenes where we see people being evicted out of their homes are painful to watch. Bahrani executes these scenes by not overly dramatising them but rather giving us a gritty and unfiltered look at these situations which I found really effective. The opening alone is fantastic as we get a long take eviction sequence that sets the tone of the film well.
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He is the court-appointed agent for houses that have been repossessed by the bank, because the wretched debtors could not keep up with the payments on risky loans. In the script Bahrani wrote with Iranian partner Amir Naderi, the American dream has passed from nightmare to living hell. This is Garfield’s best performance since The Social Network. The film asks, “Is there a bailout for moral bankruptcy? In 2009, legendary film critic Rodger Ebert declared Bahrani "the new great American director," and this movie shows that he's earned that title.
Stars align themselves and his fortune is reversed when he is offered a job by the man who evicted him from his home. Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. However, things get much tougher when Dennis is put in charge of evictions, and his family finds out what he’s doing for a living.
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Rick Carver, the real-estate agent who evicted them, offers Dennis a job fixing up foreclosed homes he owns. Dennis becomes Carver’s full-time protégé and ends up being the one enforcing evictions. His increasing responsibility becomes lucrative, but it’s not without employing unethical and immoral business practices exploiting legal loopholes. One day, business gets too personal when Dennis knows the family he must force out of their home.
Tears threaten to overwhelm him, but Dennis does not have time for self-pity. His one goal is to get his house back, the crevasse of permanent instability opening beneath him and his family. Bahrani keeps that heat turned up in the machinations of the plot, as Carver seduces Dennis with offers of wealth (meaning, in Carver's world, self-respect). Greed and corruption and the American dream should make for an exciting blueprint - like Boiler Room and Margin Call.
Homes review – chillingly topical eviction drama
When the only reward for hard-work is poverty (as is the case for an astronomic amount of blue-collar Americans), corruption and scam seem like primal survival skills. Such an economy, it’s worth pointing out, is not kept by the people who make, but rather moved by those who know what, when, where and from whom to take. He was great as General Zod in Man of Steel and he is excellent in this movie as an opportunistic foreclosure specialist in the REO industry. On the other hand, Andrew Garfield's performance was shaky at best, because it seemed like he was trying to hard. Laura Dern plays a lesser character in the movie, but should have been given a greater role and more depth to her character. As troubling as it sounds, some of the best scenes of the film are when people are evicted from their homes.
Dennis will do what it takes to get his home back, including accepting a job working construction for his nemesis Rick. Dennis gets sucked into Carver's circle of easy cash, shady deals. Within almost no time, Dennis is on the other side of those evictions, standing in the doorway, waiting for the confused angry residents to vacate. These people don't seem to be professional actors , their reactions are so raw and real. The audience is placed in the uncomfortable position of voyeurs, eavesdroppers, on a human being's lowest moment. Dennis is another story, a man who is sympathetic to his neighbors and who can barely believe or accept what’s happened.
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Bahrani does well setting up the characters and story but personally I found myself getting less invested by the end. Recently unemployed single father Dennis Nash, a former construction worker in Orlando, Florida, is evicted together with his mother Lynn, a hairdresser, and young son Connor from the foreclosed home they share. Real estate operator Rick Carver is in charge of the eviction, and police officers who provide the enforcement call him "boss". Dennis and his family move into a shabby, cramped motel room. Dennis goes to Rick's office and tries to take back his tools stolen by Rick's men. Rick sees the confrontation and is impressed by Dennis' gumption.
Pretty soon the man is learning how to make major cash but soon he begins having mixed emotions on his job of evicting people. Beginning with Nash, his mother Lynn Nash and son Connor , and ranging from young, old, non-English speaking, accepting and manic, the film shows the different shades of people, sometimes dangerous and always desperate. On July 24, 2013, Andrew Garfield signed on to play Dennis Nash, an unemployed contractor who loses his home to foreclosure. Later on September 13, Michael Shannon joined the cast of the film to play Rick Carver, who teaches Dennis the legal and illegal ins-and-outs of the foreclosure game. On December 10, Laura Dern also joined the cast of the film to play Lynn Nash, Dennis’ widowed mother, and on January 6, 2014, Noah Lomax joined the cast of the film to play Connor Nash, Dennis' son.
Both known primarily for the comic book roles respectively, but they have both down some tremendous indie work as well. The film does a good job of using both of their strengths and playing off each other to create a very intelligent screenplay. Shannon is perfect for this role, but in some ways he's also not.
From the idea of money and how to handle your money and also the banking system, it's an accurate image of our society today. Who knows how it will hold up twenty years down the road due to how society is going to change but for now 99 Home knows exactly what's going in the world now and tells it's story in a very original way. In 99 Homes, there is a point in the film where our villain states that people get too emotional about houses, at the end of the day it is a rectangular box. 99 Homes is one of the most complete and appealing films of Bahrani's career. The blood is from a homeowner who'd rather kill himself than be kicked out of his home by Realtor Rick Carver .
Rick Carver (a hypnotically despicable Michael Shannon, “Man of Steel”) is looking at the dead body of a man who has just blown his brains out as the result of the former evicting the latter from his home. The body is the movie’s first shot, which quickly pans to Carver’s annoyed face, knowing the extra time this will take in his already tight schedule of kicking people off their houses. Living with his mom, Lynn (a delightfully righteous Laura Dern, “Wild”), and his son, Connor (a complexly innocent Noah Lomax, “Playing for Keeps”), Dennis has taken the hard responsibilities of his household as a young single father. When you think of intense films, real estate and evictions aren't the first thing that come to mind.
Very naturalistic acting and a "ripped from the headlines" story coalesce to give one of the most scathing indictments of what the "American Dream" has become that I've seen a long while. And, to a certain extent, things haven't really changed all that much. The story revolves around Andrew Garfield's character, a single father who is evicted from his home. Through circumstance, he comes to work for the man who evicted him , and he gets an opportunity to see how the other half lives.
Dennis eventually obeys Rick's order to deliver the missing document to court that defeats the homeowner's legal case. Fearing that the man, whose family is also in the house, will likely be killed in a shoot-out, Dennis falsely confesses to having forged the document. The homeowner surrenders, and Dennis is escorted to the law enforcement's car so that they can speak with Rick. Despite the apparent betrayal, Rick praises his actions, and quietly thanks him; presumably for taking the blame for the forged document. As Dennis waits in the car, the homeowner's son smiles at him, then quickly runs away.
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