99 Homes Page #3

Synopsis: Around the world everyone knows that honest hard work gets you nowhere. In sunny Orlando, Florida, construction worker Dennis Nash learns this the hard way when he is evicted from his home by a charismatic, gun-toting real-estate broker, Rick Carver. Humiliated and homeless, Nash has no choice but to move his mom and nine-year old son into a shabby, dangerous motel. All is lost. Until an unexpected opportunity arises for Nash to strike a deal with the devil - he begins working for Carver in a desperate attempt to get his home back. Carver seduces Nash into a risky world of scamming and stealing from the banks and the government; he teaches Nash how the rich get richer. Living a double life, Nash hides his new boss and job from his family. He rises fast and makes real money; he dreams bigger. But there is a cost. On Carver's orders, Nash must evict honest families from their homes - just as it happened to him. Nash's conscience starts tearing him apart... but his son needs a home. In a
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Ramin Bahrani
Production: Broad Green Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 12 wins & 23 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
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Rotten Tomatoes:
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Year:
2014
112 min
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Come this way.

Come this way.

Come on.

- Where am I gonna sleep?

- Where do you wanna sleep?

How about in this one

cos it's closer to the TV?

That's a good call.

How about this, buddy?

Take that off, put this one on.

Wait, this has to come off.

Am I going to school tomorrow?

We got to figure all that out,

don't we?

Yeah, cos, er...

I have to see Derek.

And I promised him, so...

Er, my name is Dennis Nash.

I'm calling about the roofing job.

Yeah, I work for Crown Construction.

About five years.

Um, you got anything else

on the books right now?

All right, well, my number...

Yeah, I got a ton of experience.

I do electric, construction,

plumbing, anything.

All right. Lower-level stuff?

Anything? Anything going?

Do you know of anybody

that's hiring right now?

All right. Thank you for your help.

Thank you for your time.

Dennis, this motel

is half full of people like us.

They're not people like us.

They're all evicted

and they get stuck here.

I could maybe take the bus

and start looking for apartments.

- We can't afford it.

- It's just first and last month's.

Plus two or three months' security.

Four maybe, cos of our credit.

Our credit's shot.

Dennis, we've...

We've got to get out of here.

We've got to go to Tampa.

- We gotta go to Uncle Jimmy's.

- We're not going to Tampa.

Uncle Jimmy said we could come.

I talked to Mary Margaret

just three days ago.

We're not going to Tampa.

You really wanna go to Tampa?

You wanna take Connor out of school,

take him away from his friends?

We leave, we give up.

We leave, we let the house go.

I'm gonna figure it out.

No choice.

- Baby, you want some toast?

- No.

You don't want any toast?

I didn't leave any tools

in my truck, right?

Huh? We got everything, right?

What's wrong?

Man, I mean, that's beautiful, but...

- I was catching 2lb bass...

- Excuse me.

- ...when I was six years old.

- Hold up.

Hey.

You stole some tools from me

during my eviction.

I'm the senior sales manager.

What's the problem?

- He stole 500 bucks' worth of my tools.

- You're just making up bullshit.

I didn't steal your f***ing tools.

- We have a form you can fill out.

- Just give me my tools.

If you have an issue

we got a form you can fill out.

Just go back to your house

and look for your tools again.

Oh, wait. You don't have

a f***ing house, right?

What the f***?

- Goddamn it!

- Give me my f***ing tools back.

- F***er!

- Kick your arse.

Chill the f*** out!

Hey, buddy, chill the f*** out!

- Hey!

- F***ing call me a f***ing thief!

- Give me my f***ing tools back.

- Knock that sh*t off right now.

- Chill the f*** out!

- Get the f*** off of me.

Bill, you wanna throw a couple of licks

or are you just officiating

this event today?

Sir, I was just...

I was trying to intervene, sir.

What the f***

are you still doing here anyway?

- I thought, sir... I thought you said...

- You thought? Lord Almighty.

You have evolved.

Has Darwin come to Orlando, Florida?

- Well, Bill?

- We'll be there on time, Mr Carver.

- Get to it.

- Yes, all right.

All right, come on, vamanos.

Freddy, let's go.

Guys, we're going to Vista Lakes.

Here we go.

And you, sir, are you finished?

Cos I got the cops on speed dial.

They could chase you out of town.

I didn't come here to fight.

I came to get my tools

that your guy stole.

Do I look like Ace Hardware?

I don't deal in tools.

- I deal in homes.

- Your guy stole the tools.

- I understand what you do, sir.

- You do?

You evicted me yesterday.

You kicked me out.

I didn't kick you out, the bank did.

I just represent it.

Richard Carver.

What? You gotta be kidding me.

When?

Uh-huh.

Yeah. F*** Hazmat.

I'll call them myself.

- 914 Shader Drive, now.

- What about Via Alizar?

- Move it!

- Yes, sir.

Let's go.

Mr Carver, I'm sorry

to interrupt your day.

- Are you Miguel?

- What?

Do you work? You got tools?

You do construction?

- Yeah, I do work.

- 914 Shader Drive.

I'll pay you $50 cash.

- What? Are you kidding me?

- $50 shouldn't be a joke to you, son.

Are you gonna look into my...

Motherf***er!

F***ing sh*t!

F***ing cocksucker!

I need your team out here in 30 minutes

or it's gonna be a total gut job

to the goddamn studs.

Yeah, these animals backed up

the sewage and skipped town.

I'm glad you think that's funny.

I got the neighbours threatening

to call the department of health.

If your team isn't here in 30 minutes

my next call's gonna be to Fannie

about your slow-arse response time.

What do you mean,

sh*t's not a hazardous material?

Why don't you come and eat some?

Maybe that will change your mind.

Yeah, f*** you too.

Rick, no.

- Mr Carver, we don't...

- You know what's gonna happen, right?

By tonight the mould's

gonna be up to the ceiling.

By tomorrow someone's paying money

to demolish it.

- And it ain't gonna be me.

- 300 bucks.

That's a bear and you know it. 250.

All right.

Is this yours?

Oh, f***.

Harden the f*** up, son.

There better be container trucks,

shop vacs and a blower here in one hour

or I will make it my business that

you never work in Orange County again.

You will also finish Via Alizar today.

You are on my list, sh*t-f***.

Nash.

What else do you do?

Framing, electric, roofing, plumbing?

All that, more.

Go on, finish it.

Ahh!

All right, a six-pack

for the first guy in here with a shovel.

Anybody?

How much you pay for it?

- $200?

- 150.

Plus the six-pack.

- Cerveza por trabajo, si?

- Cerveza? Good.

All right, let's go.

Anybody else? How about you?

It's just sh*t.

I know you need the money.

There you go, there you go.

Come on, red shirt.

What about you, pretty?

All right, let's do it.

Let's get this sh*t done.

- Dennis? Are you kidding me?

- Is that real money?

- How much is this? 50.

- That's real money. Count it out.

- 100. Another 50 is 150.

- Keep going.

- $200?

- 250.

Hold on a second.

Who called you? What's that?

Some guys.

It was through, er...

Not that guy Dan?

- Is this a new job?

- It's a new guy. You don't know him.

Javier called me

and we figured it out.

This is serious money

and your son has just totally pocketed it.

- Where have you put it?

- That's the biggest money ever!

- It's right here, Dad.

- That's my money!

Don't you believe it!

You're gonna make

new friends right now.

You're gonna jump on here.

I don't want to.

I know.

But I need you to be brave.

But it's a different school.

I don't want to go to that school.

I know you don't, but you got

to keep your grades up, remember?

- You got to take care of yourself, OK?

- Yeah, I know. Bye.

Hey, hey!

I love you.

Be safe, OK?

Take care of yourself, all right?

- 'I see you.'

- Hey, Rick.

'Come round back

to the screen door where the pool is.'

Who's that guy?

All right, thanks. Bye.

Nash. If it's not one thing

it's another.

Come on.

Oh, girls, it's hot in here.

Calling all princesses.

It's time for the royal ice cream.

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Ramin Bahrani

Ramin Bahrani (Persian: رامین بحرانی‎; born March 20, 1975) is an Iranian-American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert listed Bahrani's film Chop Shop as the 6th best film of the 2000s and hailed Bahrani as "the director of the decade." Bahrani was the recipient of the prestigious 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, and was the subject of several international retrospectives including the MoMA in New York City, Harvard University, and the La Rochelle Film Festival in France. Bahrani is a professor of film directing at Columbia University's Graduate Film Program in New York City. more…

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