There is a very interesting, even mythical motel at the core of 99 Homes. It is the place where middle-class white families end up after they’ve been evicted from their suburban homes. It is a purgatory between the American dream and the American nightmare. The families staying here are on the way to becoming members of the vast and expanding underclass. Lots of blacks and Latinos also live in this motel of misery; they play very loud music and walk about the place with a menacing air.
When a white unemployed construction worker, Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield), his mother, Lynn Nash (Laura Dern), and his son, Connor Nash (Noah Lomax), arrive at this motel after their home is foreclosed by a ruthless real-estate raider, Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), they are greeted by other white and destitute families…
