99 Homes

Slumdog Millionaire meets Up in the Air in this multi-viewpoint look at the foreclosure world.  When Dennis (Andrew Garfield) is foreclosed on and forcibly evicted from his home along with his mother and son, he make a deal with "the devil" Rick Carver (Michael Shannon) to go work for him foreclosing on other people and generally milking the system.  The final job is a 100 house deal and the ethical quandry that the Tourtured Young Man must make for one home leaves...  99 Homes.



Some good and some bad things:  the lack of a mother/woman perspective was pretty ridiculous to have Laura Dern be his mother.  She plays a very weak character.  Of course the cute son was a prop.  Good cinematography with the Orlando suburbs landscape.  Good not great.


* * * of 5


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