99 Homes is dramatic thriller based on a true story. In the film, Rick Carver (Academy nominee Michael Shannon) is making a killing by repossessing homes – gaming the real estate market, Wall Street banks and the US government. When he evicts Dennis Nash (Golden Globe nominee Andrew Garfield), a single father trying to care for his mother (Academy Award nominee Laura Dern) and young son (newcomer Noah Lomax), Nash becomes so desperate to provide for his family that he goes to work for Carver – the very man who evicted him in the first place.

Carver promises Nash a way to regain his home and earn security for his family, but slyly seduces him into a lifestyle of wealth and glamour. It is a deal-with-the-devil that comes with an increasingly high cost – on Carver’s orders, Nash must evict families from their homes. As Nash falls deeper into Carver’s web, he finds his situation grows more brutal and dangerous than he ever imagined.

Andrew Garfield recently sat down with the me to discuss the movie, our roles in society and why he will never have a reality show.

I want to start off by saying that I love this movie.

Andrew Garfield: Oh good.

I actually posted on social media ‘don’t let the unsexy subject matter of home foreclosure scare you away. It’s one of the best movies of the year.’

[Laughs] That’s sweet. Thank you.

That being said, why do you think the movie works? Obviously I think the movie works.

I don’t know if it does work [laughs].

I thought it did.

For me, what is important to me, is it’s a true story. It’s incredibly human and it’s posing questions that are very difficult to answer. How do we operate in a humanistic way in a society and culture that is not humanistic at all? It sets people up against each other to put food on the table and shelter over us and our families.

The situation that Dennis Nash finds himself in is brutal. It’s kind of a position we’re all in. We have to choose whether we’re going to flow in the river of this blood red system that doesn’t serve anyone in a deep way. You can look around a city and you can see the religion of a city by its tallest building. Before money was our religion and celebrity billboards were hanging over everything else, it was the church. It was God. It was spirit. I was a devotion to something greater.
Now we’re in a system that values money and pits people against each other to fight for it like animals. Scraps are thrown out for people to battle over. How do we operate in a world that’s telling us we’re not worthy unless we’re up on one of those billboards or up on one of those tallest buildings or in the million dollar freaking car that no one freaking needs or in a freaking McMansion with three gates with barbed wire?