While films like The Big Short and Margin Call looked at the corporate side of the 2008 housing market crash, 99 Homes takes it down to street level. Andrew Garfield gives a full performance as a down-on-his-luck builder who sees himself and his family evicted from their family home (as harrowing a scene as if this were a documentary) and he's then forced to sell his soul and work for a ruthless real estate guy (the excellent Michael Shannon) and learn to exploit the system itself. It's an eye opener as to how real estate works and can be used to screw the little people, and the film seems to use a LOT of non actors who seem to be in the same dire straights as their "characters", a sad cross-section of lower middle-class America. Beyond the real world drama is the protagonist's ethical journey, which may make him tip completely into the dark side, Shannon as great a "Sith Lord" as you might imagine.
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Shingwauk
Intense, desperate, uncomfortable and holds you to bitter end. Really good acting by both main actors.cfish80
Michael Shannon eternally rocks.tweet_tweet
Andrew Garfield's performance was a real surprise!justwannaboogie
Gripping from start to end.Jashezilla
Man, Andrew Garfield has been on a role with his awesome performances! Gripping story with awesome execution. What more could you want?God
mah boi, mah boiboulderman
Great dramatic story with career best performances 8/10jacktrewin
damn good in so many waysSiskoid
While films like The Big Short and Margin Call looked at the corporate side of the 2008 housing market crash, 99 Homes takes it down to street level. Andrew Garfield gives a full performance as a down-on-his-luck builder who sees himself and his family evicted from their family home (as harrowing a scene as if this were a documentary) and he's then forced to sell his soul and work for a ruthless real estate guy (the excellent Michael Shannon) and learn to exploit the system itself. It's an eye opener as to how real estate works and can be used to screw the little people, and the film seems to use a LOT of non actors who seem to be in the same dire straights as their "characters", a sad cross-section of lower middle-class America. Beyond the real world drama is the protagonist's ethical journey, which may make him tip completely into the dark side, Shannon as great a "Sith Lord" as you might imagine.