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- 2015
- R
- Broad Green Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
- 2015
- R
- Broad Green Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
Summary Charismatic and ruthless businessman Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), is making a killing by repossessing homes - gaming the real estate market, Wall Street banks and the US government. When he evicts Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield), a single father trying to care for his mother (Laura Dern) and young son (Noah Lomax), Nash becomes so desper...
Directed By: Ramin Bahrani
Written By: Ramin Bahrani, Bahareh Azimi, Amir Naderi
- 2015
- R
- Broad Green Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
- 2015
- R
- Broad Green Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
99 Homes
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Summary Charismatic and ruthless businessman Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), is making a killing by repossessing homes - gaming the real estate market, Wall Street banks and the US government. When he evicts Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield), a single father trying to care for his mother (Laura Dern) and young son (Noah Lomax), Nash becomes so desper...
Directed By: Ramin Bahrani
Written By: Ramin Bahrani, Bahareh Azimi, Amir Naderi
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 31 Critic Reviews
76
87% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
13% Mixed
4 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 31 Critic Reviews
76
87% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
13% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Oct 8, 2015
99 Homes combines the insight of documentary filmmaking with a thriller's urgency, opening our eyes to a complex, real-life tragedy while keeping it entertaining.
Oct 7, 2015
Of all the scary guys Michael Shannon has ever played — sociopaths, murderers, hell, even General Zod in a Superman movie — none is more frightening that his character in 99 Homes.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 98 User Ratings
7.7
83% Positive
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
17% Mixed
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17 Ratings
0% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 98 User Ratings
7.7
83% Positive
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
17% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
0% Negative
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
Jun 18, 2016
Amazing movie, truly a great piece of art as well as a deep reflection and critique on our socioeconomic beliefs. Fantastic performances by Garfield and Shannon who skyrocket this thriller into greatness.
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Feb 3, 2016
“America doesn’t bail out losers. America bails out winners.” How is that for an American dream motto? This axiom, among many others presented in the film, is the foundation as the blood-splattered frames of Ramin Bahrani’s latest offering begin to roll. The blood is from a homeowner who’d rather kill himself than be kicked out of his home by realtor Rick Carver (Michael Shannon). More of a preying vulture than empathetic human being, Carver shows no sympathy for the man who took his life instead of giving up his family home –an attitude we believe he has for everyone. Bahrani, a prolific American independent director, is known for focusing on strong characters. Highly secretive and mostly broken individuals, the challenges and obstacles many of his protagonists face are mapped out and executed in unique but usually tragic ways. His expertise is focusing more on the formula of their progression than the final outcome. With 99 Homes, Bahrani switches gears, focusing more on the narrative and development of the story, rather than his deep, often slow, evolution of memorable characters. Thankfully, Bahrani doesn’t exactly abandon ship in his character building philosophy with his main protagonist and antagonist in the film. He is able to put more focus on his narrative and visual style here, thanks to actor Shannon, who helps maintain the flow of Carver as well as the people around him. For the most part, character-driven directors find it difficult to give all creative energy to their actors, especially after building up a filmography that shows his obsession with leading his main men. But with an actor like Shannon, one of the most confident and reliable actors working today, Bahrani needs not have this fear of relinquishing control of character development. In fact, Shannon’s understanding of Carver’s journey and discreet choices of dialogue, begs the question if Bahrani could have achieved this character development on his own? Bahrani’s protagonist is Dennis Nash, played wonderfully by Andrew Garfield. Garfield, who was one of the few fortunate Hollywood actors to grace the stage with the legendary Philip Seymour Hoffman on the Broadway stint of Death of a Salesman, seems to have absorbed much of the acting genius of the late Hoffman. Holding his own against a larger than life acting force that is Shannon, Garfield’s Nash allows himself to feed off Carver’s greed and sinisterly convincing monologues with scenes of heart-wrenching grit and sensitivity. 99 Homes shouldn’t be described as the typical tour-de-force, but more of a tour-de-fact cinematic achievement. The filmmaker, whose adamant cinematic attitude is almost non-apologetic on-screen, choosing to highlight a truly sad time in American history. Set in Florida in 2010, when homes were being repossessed by the bank for every chime of the clock on the wall, the film shows a raw portrait of every family’s worst nightmare; a moment of complete vulnerability and uncertainty–being left on the side of the road, with all you’re worldly possessions sitting on the lawn. As troubling as it sounds, some of the best scenes of the film are when people are evicted from their homes. Beginning with Nash, his mother Lynn Nash (Laura Dern) and son Connor (Noah Lomax), and ranging from young, old, non-English speaking, accepting, and manic; the film shows the different shades of people, sometimes dangerous and always desperate. 99homes1 Nash, a general contractor who never sits at the wayside, becomes a true character of action. The determination of Dennis Nash, thanks to the convincing acting of Garfield, is a little glimmer of hope that man is able to triumph over the recklessness of society’s actions, but sometimes at a severe cost. Nash’s choices and inner struggles are a sharp and dangerous double-edged sword. Nash is a truly tormented moral character who, through his journey of self-discovery, wealth and pain, always draws on the most basic human elements. The biggest question Bahrani leaves audiences with is, “what would you do if you were left in the same situation?” Possibly the most commercial of his work thus far, the director of Chop Shop, Man Push Cart, At Any Cost and my personal favourite Goodbye Solo, does a magnificent job of juggling the moral and ethical lines of his characters, allowing the audience to ask itself the same questions the characters are asking themselves as the film progresses. This fine element of 99 Homes keeps Bahrani’s tradition of bustlingly tragic and anguished characters alive with vivid, exciting, and mostly unpredictable results. 99 Homes is one of the most complete and appealing films of Bahrani’s career. Engaging enough for causal movie-goers, and enough to chew for veteran nit-picking cinephiles, the film is easily one of the most compelling films at TIFF.
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Oct 1, 2015
Because of its strong dialogue and convincing acting, 99 Homes stays on point for quite some time, artfully disguising the film's increasing reliance on plot devices.
Sep 22, 2015
The film is more closing argument than portrait of life in the downturn, but it's thrillingly vigorous in its damning.
Oct 1, 2015
A provocative, visceral, sometimes heartbreakingly relevant drama/thriller.
Sep 25, 2015
Before it goes off the rails in the final stretch, 99 Homes is a riveting rabble-rouser that thinks it can make a difference. In these days when Hollywood typically dulls our wits, Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes has a fire in its belly. It's spoiling to be heard.
Oct 7, 2015
Iwish I could say 99 Homes delivers a shockingly good sucker punch to the American electorate and a stand-up-and-cheer piece of socially conscious filmmaking, but it’s not. It lacks the satisfactory denouement of, for instance, Michael Mann’s The Insider (and Garfield is no Russell Crowe), in part because the events it depicts are still happening across the country (albeit to a lesser extent).
Apr 11, 2016
I really like Michael Shannon. 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. It's a good movie and it's well made. Definitely worth the watch.
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Sep 25, 2020
It's not very subtle and it gets very repetitive, but it makes up for it with a fantastic performance by Andrew Garfield and a great, if extremely melodramatic climax. Michael Shannon is too overtly evil for there to be any nuance (and he keeps talking about handjobs for some reason), but he still gave a very entertaining performance. However, it is Andrew Garfield who carries the whole movie with one of his best performances.
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Oct 26, 2015
This movie is about moral and ethical choices we make in life. A single dad lives with his son and his mom. He is a capable construction worker but cannot make his ends meet, and his family gets evicted from their house. But then his luck changes. He starts working for the guy who evicted them from their house, keeping it a secret from his family. In a way, he is selling his soul to the devil. Two leading actors, Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon, perform exceptionally well. They carry the whole movie. Unfortunately, the script has so many holes that overall impression is of a mediocrity.
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Oct 15, 2015
99 homes sit on a street- 99 homes on a street -if one of them haps to foreclose -98 homes before I doze. Greed and corruption and the American dream should make for an exciting blueprint - like Boiler Room and Margin Call. But once you’ve seen the opening five minutes of this film - there’s nothing to phone home about. As the middle class learns a house is not a home. And the cookie cutter arc of the lead character - a man torn between putting a roof over his family and living with himself makes for a weak foundation to support this ninety minute house of cards.
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Production Company
- Broad Green Pictures
- Hyde Park Entertainment
- Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ
- Noruz Films (I)
Release Date Sep 25, 2015
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating R
Tagline Greed is the only game in town.
Website http://www.99homesmovie.com/
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Venice Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
FEST International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
