99 Homes Page #8

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
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and it's not mine.

- Holy sh*t.

- Yup.

Triple word score.

- Take that.

- We're working, baby.

Dennis, tell him to take a break.

Take a break, Rick.

You inspire me, OK?

We'll play later.

Er...

OK, so you know Vesic already bought

15 homes from Ortiz last month.

So?

So, what if I take all the ACs,

all the water pumps

and the appliances

out of those homes?

Who do you think

Vesic's gonna blame?

Ortiz.

They'll call Immigration, put him

on his lawn mower back over the border

while I'm on the phone

with Bank of Greater Santa Fe.

Yeah.

And we'll sell these 100 homes.

And 1,000 more for Freeman.

I see green skies ahead.

Put some green in my pocket,

I'll empty those homes tonight.

100 bucks a pop, 1500 bucks.

Big talk. All right, do it.

- Tell him to hurry up.

- We got that cube truck too.

- HVAC pool pump.

- HVAC pool pump.

But come this way too.

I wanna show you something.

- Are you going in?

- No, you're going in.

Nah, that's B&E, man.

That's guaranteed time right there.

It's not B&E if you got a key.

We're doing appliances too.

We're doing fridges,

stoves, dishwashers.

- You gonna take care of me?

- You know I will.

Whatever I can afford.

You know that.

I'm heading to handle this cash-for-keys

Rick wanted me to do.

Yeah. Hold on.

1485 Lake Shore Circle.

Is that property for sale?

Does it have a swimming pool?

All right. I'll call you back.

Three, two, one.

Derek, over here.

- Every put your hands out.

- Yes!

Happy birthday!

All right, Mountain Dew.

What's happening?

- Who wants it?

- Connor.

God, Dad!

- What do you think?

- Awesome!

Jump on it. Jump on it.

Sit down on it. Sit down on it.

Show us what you got.

Nice.

- Careful.

- Car, guys.

Hey.

Hey, Connor. Let's see

if these guys want some of your cake.

Do we have a cheese pizza left?

Do you guys wanna ask them

if they want some cheese pizza

and some birthday cake?

- All right, I gotta get Derek home.

- OK.

I'm gonna grab that cheese pizza

and some cake.

I think it's nice for them

to say hi to these guys.

- I gotta get Derek home.

- Hey!

Hey, where are you going?

Hey, you!

Over here.

- I'm talking to you.

- You're talking to me?

What are you doing here?

Are you following me?

No, I live here.

I don't know what you're talking about.

- Yeah, I know who you are.

- Have a good day.

- What are you doing here?

- What do you mean? I live here.

I just told you.

I don't know you.

No, you're Rick Carver Realty.

I know exactly who you are.

- You don't know me.

- Oh, I know you.

- You kicked me out of my home.

- What?

I don't know you, bud.

Come over here and we'll talk.

Why would I walk over here?

Nash. That's your name, isn't it?

You don't want

everybody else to hear about it,

what a f***ing arsehole you are

and how you kicked me

and my entire family out of our home?

- You got me mixed up with someone.

- No, I don't.

I know exactly who you are.

Oh, you know it was you.

And here everybody else

is gonna know.

- Just calm down.

- You kicked me out of my home.

You ruined my f***ing life.

No, you don't get to go anywhere.

- Dennis!

- Don't do that.

- Don't you tell me what to do.

- Get inside.

- Get inside.

- Yeah, get inside.

- Don't f***ing talk to her like that.

- What are you gonna f***ing do?

Please, guys. Please!

Go inside, go inside!

- Take him inside!

- OK.

- Go, go, go.

- You little f***ing piece of sh*t.

- You ruined my life.

- I'm not f***ing with this guy.

Yeah, you better not f*** with me.

- I don't know you, man.

- You know me.

- I don't know you.

- Bullshit!

- I don't f***ing know you.

- I know you, Rick Carver Realty.

I know you

and I'll see you every day,

when you wake up, when you go to bed,

when your f***ing kids are playing.

You OK?

How did he know your name?

I don't know.

- Cos he knew your face too, right?

- Yeah.

Yeah, I know.

Maybe I worked on his house.

I work on foreclosed homes.

Maybe he saw me at his home.

I don't know.

Rick Carver.

Right?

How did he know your name?

F***ing arsehole!

- We gotta get Connor out of here.

- That's what I'm trying to do.

- Now.

- That's what I'm trying to do, Mum.

Right now.

- Get the f*** outta here.

- F*** you!

- You motherf***er.

- F*** you!

OK, we need to go.

We need to get out of here, OK?

Have some f***ing balls.

- Are you evicting people?

- Mum!

- He said you were at his eviction.

- I don't know that f***ing guy.

I don't know how he knows me.

I work on homes.

I work on foreclosed homes, Mum.

This guy was being foreclosed on.

Maybe he saw me working on his home.

Maybe. I don't know.

- OK?

- Just tell me.

I'm telling you.

Bolt the door. Don't leave.

Disney World, Sea World,

Universal Studios.

Downtown Orlando's

about 20 miles behind us.

And then at your nine o'clock

are the vacant Greater Santa Fe homes.

Wow, I never realised

how close they were to Shinola.

Mm-hm.

- About the Santa Fe deal.

- It hasn't even been a week

since we picked up 15 homes from Ortiz

and all the ACs, water pumps,

appliances are missing.

- You're kidding me.

- Hidden expenses, they kill returns

so Vesic's not interested anymore.

That Santa Fe deal's like

one giant ATM machine.

What can I do to get Vesic

back into those homes?

I just don't think

that's gonna be possible.

How about this?

I'll put brand-new appliances

in all 15 of those homes free of charge

if you move the deal

from Ortiz over to me.

I tell you what.

You put brand-new ACs,

appliances, water pumps

in any of the 100 homes that need 'em

you got yourself a deal.

Appliances, yeah.

ACs and water pumps, no.

OK.

But the homes have

to be vacated in 30 days.

Put it in writing, it's a deal.

Hey! Look at that!

Bring him in. Bring him in.

The Santa Fe deal,

I'll give you 6% of my share.

Around $63,000 before taxes.

OK. I mean, I guess

I can accept that. That's fine.

Yeah, I can deal with that amount.

$63,000 did you say?

- What are you boys up to?

- Aren't you so sweet?

I used to dream about one home.

Now it's 100.

All right.

- Dreams.

- To dreams.

F*** dreams. To 100 homes.

Hey!

Uh-oh. Zombies coming to get me.

- Oh, f***.

- Damn, pilgrim.

Did anyone ever come up to you

after an eviction?

Yeah, someone tried

to run me off the road last year.

I haven't gone out to dinner once

with my wife and girls

in the last three years

without looking over my shoulder.

That's why I carry this.

Even now at 5am.

Is it worth it?

As opposed to what?

Did somebody get to you?

Don't bullshit me.

Someone's calling you.

Or they tried to find you.

So, Nash,

the sun's gonna come up

and here we are.

What do you think?

Huh.

- Think about what?

- Well, you wanted to kill me once.

Now you're gonna make a lot of money.

I did want to kill you.

I don't know.

I don't know what I'm doing here either,

but I'm thankful.

You know.

I don't know. What could I do?

You know, my dad...

Well, he killed himself pretty much.

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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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