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Lynn is more accustomed to the vagaries of fate, but Dennis keeps trying to figure out how to get the house back. It turns out that most of the few paying construction jobs in the area come from Carver’s real estate company, and Dennis’ willingness to get his hands dirty appeals to the boss. Soon Carver gives Dennis a real job, with real money, and real moral dilemmas. Oh yeah, no problem, it's only the biggest deal of my life worth twenty million dollars, I'll trust the little quivering nincompoop with delivering the saving papers to the court house in the nick of time. Maybe a normal person would have a lawyer doing that dirty work but no, you trust the jerk that you evicted a month ago. And even the premise of that entire major plot point is preposterous.
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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The movie starts out well, and the first eviction scene will leave you shaking in your boots imagining your family and belongings getting foreclosed and tossed into the street. I can't think of another film that focuses on the eviction process so intensely. It's a far better inquiry into the same ground covered by another big release from the same year, the glib "The Big Short," which copped much more attention but is a much less impressive movie.
In a desperate move to secure a huge contract, Carver forges papers for foreclosure proceedings against a family Dennis knows personally. Features a gut wrenching eviction scene that establishes the tone for the rest of the film. It's the stuff they don't show you on reality flip shows, the personal, tragic side of foreclosure. Andrew Garfield, as a man who has "failed" in his duty as protector and provider, has an almost constant sense of panic throughout, catching his breath in his throat, his posture tight and alert.
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Yes, it in no way wills to oversee the bear gut and occasional sentimentality of the film it sets to look at. Yes, it wants to talk about current issues while taking the film as the vehicle it is. Yet it is aware, and I am just as well, that a logical and reasonable approach does sound a lot like partisanship nowadays — but that has nothing to do with the original intent of wanting to think things through.
As most kids after high school, I didn't have a plan for myself and college was my only option. I was lucky enough to get a good job at a grocery store that will be able to support me though college. Even though I had my differences with my hometown, growing up in one of the richest towns in Michigan had it's perks also. It's so hard and heartbreaking to watch Dennis not have money or a name to himself.
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But, will he able to live with himself now that he's doing to others what was so callously done to him? While there is an immediacy and current relevancy to the story being told here, at its heart is a rather strong moral argument against what the "American Dream" has become . I was reminded of Oppenheimer's famous quote about the atomic bomb, except with a few words changed.
Garfield may be know for his role as afflicted teen Peter Parker or Spider-Man by many, while audiences may know Shannon best for his villainous turn as General Zod in the recent Superman reboot Man of Steel. The best part about watching 99 Homes is analyzing these men, and seeing them transform before our eyes into the demons that haunt the streets and doorsteps of everyday people. Sheltered in our own little seats and watching the unfortunate tragedy unfold on-screen, this compassionate slice of other people's reality is one of the most engaging features of 2014. Founded on concrete performances, sturdy direction and a narrative with a good roof on its head, 99 Homes is built to last. It's a film worth seeing just for the story, but with the superb performances, it makes a film you need to see.
It’s a compelling and relevant picture, with terrific performances from Shannon and Garfield. "99 Homes" is a ferocious excavation of the meaning of home, the desperation attached to real estate, the pride of ownership and the stability of belonging. Once a person slips below the mainstream, it is nearly impossible to gain a foothold again. Yes, it means to broach its subject from a reasonable, logical standpoint.
He sons began working with Carver and must confront both the economic realities of the period, what it takes to survive- and the no holds barred mindset that just might lift him out of it-but at what cost? It's a film that builds slowly, but to immense effect-and proves to be incredibly intelligent, a family drama meets Wall Street meets the Big Short. After a single father loses his family home during the foreclosure crisis, he attempts to regain his financial footing by working for the man who actually evicted him . The ethically complex world of home repossession frames the film's discussion, but the father's moral dilemna drives the drama. Garfield and Shannon both create compelling characters and the scenes of families being evicted are heartbreaking.
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.
A powerful personality is thus that which mirrors its accomplishments. The rise of the broker in the 1980’s saw the slow decline of the kingpin. This was the ultimate gangster, the legit $treet-god, the tidied thief clothed as an immaculate impresario.
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.
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He's great at playing antagonistic characters but in this case its almost impossible to have any sympathy for his character. The film never bored me, in fact I was engaged throughout the story, but I think at times it just became too unrealistic. Dennis Nash lives in Orlando, Florida with his mother Lynn and son Connor. He's a single dad struggling to get by with his construction job when the housing crash takes the last bit away from him.
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