99 Homes Page #9

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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F*** it, no. Sorry.

I don't wanna waste your booze.

He... He died of a heart attack.

Booze, food.

Whatever you wanna call it.

Left me with my mum.

My boy.

My boy, my boy.

As opposed to what?

I gotta get out of that motel now.

I gotta get into my home.

I gotta get my family out.

It's gotta be listed on the MLS,

for sale.

- I need it.

- Two more weeks, OK?

I need it now.

- Get another one.

- Help me with it.

You got the money.

Buy whatever you want.

There's plenty of homes in the sea.

Like I said,

don't get emotional

about real estate, Nash.

They're boxes.

You listening?

Big boxes, small boxes.

What matters is how many you got.

You're gonna have more properties

than women to fill them with.

You know that, right?

You love your mum, you love your kid.

Buy 'em a house.

Buy one for your mum.

Buy one for your kid.

Buy one for yourself.

What do I care? Jesus.

100 homes.

1,000 f***ing homes.

Watch out for the gators.

They don't sleep.

And make sure I don't roll in the water.

Why are we going this way?

I just wanna show you something.

Dennis, what are we doing?

Just trust me

and follow me, please.

- What is this?

- Have a look.

Why?

Will you just have a look?

- It's a cool pool.

- Cool pool.

I'd say.

Makes you wanna dive in, right?

- Whose basketball goal is that?

- That belongs to Shaquille O'Neil.

He lowered it cos he likes to dunk

from sitting down.

- Can we go now, please?

- Have you seen the pool?

I bought this for you.

And you. That's your pool.

This is your house.

Let's go home. This isn't funny.

- I'm not joking, Mum.

- That's not his basketball net.

This is somebody else's

and I want our house.

I wanna go home.

We don't have that home anymore.

I sold it.

I sold our old home

and I bought this.

Fresh start. I don't wanna go back

to that house we were evicted from.

You sold our house?

We couldn't move into our old home

for two to three weeks

so I had to get us out of that motel

so that Connor wouldn't get killed.

By kicking people out?

By kicking people out of their houses?

- You buy this?

- I didn't kick anybody out of this home.

I bought this home

with money I earned

so I could put a roof over your head

and I could put food in his mouth.

- We were drowning, Mum.

- This stops here.

I bought this fair and square.

- I didn't take it from anybody.

- I'm gonna call Jimmy

and we're going to Tampa, OK?

Come on, Connor.

I'm gonna call my brother.

We're gonna go to Tampa

and you're gonna figure this out.

I did this for the boy.

We were drowning.

Rick Carver? Rick Carver

who bought our house for us?

I'm not staying here.

I'm not staying in this home.

What do you want?

Is Connor OK?

He's sleeping.

Hey, Rick.

Yeah, sure.

OK.

- Give it to him.

- Yep, all right.

- See you, fellas.

- 9:
45.

Yes, sir.

- Goddamn it.

- What is it?

One Santa Fe homeowner is gonna try

and block his eviction in court today.

If he's successful and others follow,

Vesic will pull out.

This is proof of publication.

It wasn't filed two years ago,

so Freeman's boys

backdated and notarised it.

Now, I need you to be

at the courthouse plaza at 9:45am.

The court clerk will meet you there.

Just give it to him, OK?

This is forged?

It's a stupid piece of paper

someone forgot to file

when the loan was being bought

and sold a million times over.

It's just a technicality.

- It's Frank Greene.

- Yeah.

Same deadbeat stealing my water

and power. I told you he was no good.

Hey, that's not your dick

in your hand, son.

That is the Santa Fe deal.

100 homes, 1,000 more for Freeman.

Our money, Miami.

Your home, everything.

- Got me?

- Mm-hm, yeah, I do.

Don't "mm-hm, yeah, I do" me.

Courthouse plaza, 9:45am.

Hey, honey.

- Hi.

- Say hello.

Hi, Mr Peters.

- Hello.

- What the hell is going on?

'What do you mean?'

You get your arse over there now

or consider your life over, do you hear?

- Where are you?

- 'I'm here now.'

And?

- I'm about to do it now.

- 'You dumb f***.'

You call me as soon as it's done.

You hear me?

Hey.

Hey. Hey.

Hey!

Are you with Rick Carver?

Are you with Rick Carver?

Are you with Carver or not?

Is that it?

Idiot!

As far as I can tell

the proof of publication is here.

Your Honour,

we have a buyer in place

and we'd like to get

this property on the books.

If we check the fall index

this has not been docketed.

Well, that may be,

but the proof is in the file.

That's all the statute requires.

I'm ordering the sale to go forward.

Your Honour, we know for a fact

that the files weren't there.

ESP versus Ballard.

Your Honour, I know

that there was no proof of publication.

- You can't look at me...

- What is it?

I have a wife and I have...

These guys. You see them?

You see my wife and my children?

Connor?

Mum? Connor?

Connor?

'Please record your message

after the tone. When you have...'

'Hey, Rick.'

Morning, Donald Trump.

I'm outside your new mansion.

Where are you?

Frank Greene's eviction. Let's go.

'Hello? Dumb arse, are you there?'

There's eight other homeowners

we got to evict after Greene.

I'll start out nice

with an aggressive cash-for-keys.

I'll pay out of my own pocket

if I have to. I don't give a sh*t.

But if they give me any flak,

Freeman's boys

and the court clerk, baby.

No big deal.

We've been neighbours for a long time

and I've never seen

anything like this before.

Do you know if they have

any guns in the house?

- I mean, he likes to hunt.

- He's a hunter?

Yeah, he likes to hunt.

She gripes a lot,

but he's a pretty even-keeled guy.

- Not hot-tempered or anything?

- No, I wouldn't say that.

I can tell you, it's been really hard.

His wife's been a worried wreck.

Morning, Rick. We may have

some trouble with Mr Greene, the tenant.

He and his wife

have been looking into stuff.

Well, I mean, you know.

Look, last night I heard 'em yelling.

Ma'am, thank you.

We're not marriage counsellors, OK?

Let's get cooking.

The problem is,

this guy may be armed.

Go find out.

I got two more evictions today.

All right. I'll contact Orlando PD,

get a back-up come in and check it out.

- Is his family in there with him?

- The kids didn't go to school.

They're definitely home.

She came over this morning, crying,

until he called her back in.

I'll go and check it out.

Thanks for the play-by-play.

Hurry up.

Watch out! Get back!

Run!

I do not wanna hurt anybody.

Sir, put the gun down.

Put the gun down.

Put the gun down, sir.

Put the gun down, sir.

You put that down.

My wife and kids are in this house.

Get your gun. You don't have it?

- Dumb sh*t.

- Sir, put the weapon down.

Trespassing.

- Sir, don't do that.

- Shots fired, shots fired.

- You wanna shoot my kids?

- Oh, f***, f***, f***, f***!

I am not gonna leave here.

Go in the bedroom.

Don't stand there.

Get in the bedroom.

Now.

- I shot at the grass.

- Put the gun down.

God damn it, stop it.

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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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