99 Homes Page #5

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:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
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Year:
2014
112 min
Website
904 Views


The bank screwed you over.

Take your pick.

Either way you lost.

But I made more money

during the crash than before it.

You can too, you just gotta stop

lying to yourself and ask,

what did you do wrong

that your family lives in a motel?

I'm gonna do it.

Whatever you want me to do,

I'll do it, but...

I need you to do me a favour,

help me get my family home back.

I want you to take this

as my first payment.

Don't get emotional about real estate.

It's too late for that.

That's my family home.

That's my boy's school,

so please just take this.

This ain't gonna cut it.

Put that under your mattress.

Don't put it in the bank.

You're just giving them more money.

When you get enough

I'll tell you what to do with it.

Now, do you want to double

what you just made or not?

It's about f***ing time, playboy.

Damn.

Always late, papa.

You always late, man.

Yeah.

That's the jackpot.

- So who's this Rick Carver dude?

- That's my boss.

For the time being.

- What's that like?

- Oh, it's great. He's...

Nah, he's a f***ing arsehole.

One, two, three.

Straight on.

- What are you doing?

- Got to take a picture.

To prove to the bank this sh*t's missing

so they pay us to put it back in.

We're stealing it

to then bring it back?

- You wanna get paid?

- Hell, yeah.

I got to take a picture.

- Yeah?

- Mr Tanner, my name is Dennis Nash.

I'm here representing

Rick Carver Realty.

Um, I'm here to, er...

I understand your house

has been foreclosed on.

The house still belongs to us

and we intend to keep it that way.

I hope that works out.

God forbid it doesn't.

If you got a second

I wanna tell you about cash for keys,

here on the form.

What do you mean,

cash for keys?

If you leave your house

in a broom-swept condition

prior to your eviction date,

banks can give you 3500 bucks

cash in your pocket.

We're not interested in anything.

Take your papers.

We'll contact our attorney

and they'll get with you.

What you doing, son?

Who'll buy a home with a pool

if the pool don't work?

- What do y'all think y'all doing?

- Doing some repairs.

I know this house has been empty

for two or three months.

You know Rick Carver Realty?

You see that sign on the lawn?

- Yes, I did.

- That's who we work for.

I hope you have a good day.

- Is she your type?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah!

It ain't a lot,

but it's gonna pay for U-Haul,

storage, a down payment

on an apartment.

I have no idea what's going on.

Because my mum and dad

from Vietnam is coming

and the house can't be foreclosured.

Have you been putting notices

on my window?

- No, that's the Sheriff's Department.

- Well, that's trespassing.

I can't control what the department does,

but I can give you this form.

I don't want your papers.

Don't hand me no papers.

I don't want your papers or notices.

I want you to get the hell out of here.

I've been owning this house

for seven years already.

I met my wife right here.

We're about to have a baby here.

I just made an addition in the back.

I wanna save the house.

I wanna keep it.

- Who are you?

- I work for a real estate company.

This is a KYO form. Basically,

it means knowing your options.

- My options?

- I'm putting it all on Facebook.

- Kayla, put it away.

- We don't know who this man is.

Kayla, go inside.

I'm sorry, ma'am.

I'm gonna have to take care of my kid.

I advise you to call

that number at the bo...

- If you wanna just take a look.

- I'm not looking at anything.

You could just take it

and not look at it.

Hold on a second.

I think I've made myself clear to you.

I don't wanna see you again.

Both Victor and Andy.

Neither one of them showed up.

- Hey.

- Hey.

I can't even give Connor his vitamins.

I have one little kid Flintstone vitamin.

They're good.

- What do you got in there?

- What do you have in there?

- A steak.

- What?

That's Hamburger Helper

if I ever heard of anything.

What does that look like to you?

That looks like dinner for Day and I.

Day, you come on and join us.

You put that under your T-shirt.

No, I'm not kidding.

Oh, that was in.

Come on, Dad!

Watch the lamp!

One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight ACs.

And five pool pumps.

- A good addition.

- I figured why not.

Better count on seven.

I dropped that one. It's beyond repair.

- Sell it for scrap metal.

- I already priced it out. 100 bucks.

Good. Invoice Rick Carver Realty

24K for the ACs

and 3200 for the pumps.

The bank will reimburse me

to the same amount.

Your cut is 25%, about 6700.

- 6700?

- That's right.

- Hey, Rick.

- What?

You still got that Ruger?

Excuse me? What did you say?

Are you saying you want the gun?

Did I understand you?

I ran the background check already.

You're clear to carry it.

Who pays the most out

in cash for keys?

Fannie and Freddie, then BoA.

I want you to go to every one

of their foreclosed properties

and find any that are unoccupied.

No homeowner, no tenant.

You got it?

Yo, Terry, let's go.

- Motherf***er didn't pay again.

- We got some money for you.

Send 'em back, Luis.

Send 'em back, brother.

- Dennis, where are we going?

- Be patient. Don't ask questions.

- You don't trust me?

- You hired me, so I got no choice.

Go, Terry.

- Tell him to hurry up.

- Yo, T, let's go, baby.

There's nobody here.

11286. There's nobody here.

All right, bub. Jump in.

How we doing, Javi?

267 Lakewood.

Empty as a motherf***er.

Right, turn to the back page.

I need y'all to sign these leases.

The banks need to think you guys

are tenants in all these properties,

so that I can negotiate

cash-for-keys deals with all y'all.

- How much they paying?

- You can count on a $2500 cheque

from the government

and the motherfucking banks.

2500?

They been f***ing me for so long, man.

Sh*t, I'll take it back, brother.

Somebody getting pregnant

tonight, baby.

Who we f***ing, man?

The government or the banks?

Ah, Jim. See you for lunch

Wednesday, OK?

You think Freeman

is the way to go?

He's Fannie's number one attorney

three years running.

He can connect us to bulk buyers.

I'm not talking millions of dollars,

I'm talking billions.

All right, so this is Dennis Nash.

- County Commissioner Arthur Link.

- Pleasure.

Your property at 2102 West Jefferson,

I'll have Dennis make sure

the gutters are redone.

- What happened to Bill?

- Killed him.

This is my new guy.

I think he's gonna last.

I'll get us a meeting with Freeman.

And stick with this guy, you'll go far.

Thanks for the recommendation.

See you, Arthur.

What do you got for me?

Successfully negotiated

six cash-for-keys with six tenants.

Good. So, Nash, how much

did you tell your buddies per home?

- 3500 or less?

- Yeah, 3500.

Oh, you told them the full amount?

I told 'em what I told 'em.

What do you care?

Yeah.

Hey, baby. Look at that smile.

You're gorgeous.

Don't you have class today?

Er, they're all online,

plus I finished that website.

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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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