After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with the devil and working for Rick Carver, the corrupt real estate broker who evicted him.
"Greed is the only game in town."
This movie is reality, it shows real life experiences of how people were ripped off by wall street and their employees we call government....
> Jumping back into the pool where you have almost drowned once.
I think it was Andrew Garfield's recent best performance. Because he hasn't done any films lately since 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' critically failed. His role was awesome, but a struggling young single father. When he loses his inherited family house to the bank, he has no choice but to make a quick decision that can secure his family a roof over the head. But when the things get ugly, the new issues begin to appear, and with a narrow chance he tries to fix it.
Another excellent character in the movie that played by Michael...
Now there can be little arguing that Andrew Garfield - even without the big hair - is a good looking man whom the camera very much likes. That does not, however, compensate for the fact that he is a a truly mediocre actor - and this film, sadly, displays that in spades. He ("Nash") is a single father living with him mum (Laura Dern) but he loses his job on a construction site. The bank forecloses and when the bailiffs arrive they are quite literally chucked out onto the street by the police and a rather avaricous, ruthless realtor "Rich Carver" (Michael Shannon). Desparate to get his family ba...
_"Only one in a hundred's gonna get on that ark, son. Every other pour soul's gonna drown."_
Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon always bring their best no matter what movie they are in. Shannon plays such a good dirtbag and it never gets old, and Garfield knows how to make you feel so bad for him. In this you truly see how people struggling with the economy get fully taken advantage of and Garfield just adds to that sadness....