99 Homes

With employment opportunities drying up as a result of the US economy’s implosion, construction worker Dennis Nash (Garfield) has fallen behind in his mortgage payments. Evicted by hard-nosed local realtor Rick Carver (Shannon), Dennis desperately scrambles to keep a roof over his family’s heads. Soon Dennis finds Carver on his doorstep once again — this time with an offer of a job, and a promise to help Dennis reclaim his family home. Unable to resist, this honest, hard-working man enters a world of shady transactions and charged moral ambiguity. 99 Homes, is American director Ramin Bahrani’s most compelling and prescient work to date. A portrait of a climate where the losses of the many are offset by the gain of a few, it’s an intimate and moving chronicle of desperation powered by two compelling lead performances. – StudioCanal