Ramin Bahrani’s “99 Homes” throbs with the public fury and private horror of the real-estate collapse.
Set in Orlando suburbs, the movie plunges into the ugly, contentious dramas of foreclosure. It’s a war movie where thresholds are the battle lines.
“This is our home!” cries Andrew Garfield’s Dennis Nash from his doorway when police and a real estate broker for the bank, Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), gather on his lawn to evict him, his young son (Noah Lomax) and his mother (Laura Dern).
via Eviction, desperation artfully driven home | TBO.com and The Tampa Tribune.