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Honest hard work gets you nowhere. And it' true in Dennis Nash's case. Set amidst the backdrop of the 2008 housing market catastrophe, Dennis Nash, a hard-working and honest man, can't save his family home despite his best efforts. Nash is seduced into a risky world of scamming and stealing from the banks and the government; but everything has its price.
How entertaining could a heavy-handed drama about the 2010 U.S. foreclosure crisis - one with a comically bad climax - possibly be? Pretty entertaining, it turns out.
For all that real estate doesn't seem to be a particularly zippy topic, 99 Homes plays out like a moral thriller, with the stakes constantly ratcheting higher and higher.
[Garfield] the protege is the film's first weak point: his avowed decency - he loves his simple mom and moppety son! - is a flimsy thing, and its quick collapse leaves our hero both pathetic and despicable.
Dynamic and passionate, thrumming with barely suppressed anger, this sleek American indie has the brains of a documentary, the soul of a moral fable and the beating pulse of a thriller.
Sustained rhythm, urgent framing, and a perniciously overbearing score ensure this second venture into the darkness of a systemic failure will not be forgotten so quickly.