Look what you guys did by not supporting the Amazing Spider-Man movies. Now Andrew Garfield is broke, his home is in foreclosure and he’s turning toward corrupt means to survive. Oh, right, this is just the movies, but it’s a Ramin Bahrani movie, which used to mean a level of realism that makes some viewers mistake it for actual reality.
I’ve been wanting Bahrani to return to those kinds of films, as I am a huge fan of Man Push Cart and Chop Shop. But his latest, 99 Homes, looks good enough for me to give his new direction a shot. If he’s going to work with professional actors, he can’t get much better than Garfield, Michael Shannon and Laura Dern.
From the first trailer above, it does appear to be a rather heavy handed issue film about the mortgage crisis and bank bailouts. More, though, I think that could just be a perfect backdrop for an old-fashioned yet very relevant crime film, the way the classics had the heavy issues of Prohibition and the Great Depression beneath their plots of desperation and themes about the American Dream.
In our review from the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, Kate Erbland criticizes the neatness and logic of the script but praises the two lead actors:
Garfield’s intense on-screen vulnerability — the kind that’s clear in Boy A, but that’s decidedly lacking in his Spider-Man outings — is on full display here, and his ability to telegraph big emotions with small looks is astonishing. These are the kinds of films the actor should be making, and he succeeds mightily in his role. Shannon is somewhat more restrained than we’re used to seeing him, although Rick is prone to big outbursts, big talking and big speeches (with a love for e-cigs to boot), and he’s still one of our finest working actors, and his chemistry with Garfield is potent.
99 Homes opens September 25th.
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