Ramin Bahrani's film paints a harrowing and all-too realistic account of foreclosed homes and mortgaged lives
Films that aren’t intended to be documentary, but very well could be, are the ones that seem to hit home the hardest. And quite literally, as is the case in filmmaker Ramin Bahrani’s latest film, “99 Homes.”
Swampy and populated Florida is the backdrop of Dennis Nash’s struggle. Nash, played by a convincing Andrew Garfield, is drowning in debt during the aftermath of the housing crisis of 2008. The young single father is the primary breadwinner for his son and resilient mother (Laura Dern), who live in their family home. ...