Recently unemployed single father Dennis Nash, a former construction worker in Orlando, Florida, is evicted together with his mother Lynn, a hairdresser, and young son Connor from the foreclosed home they share.

Real estate operator Rick Carver is in charge of the eviction, and police officers who provide the enforcement call him "boss".

Dennis soon becomes Rick's assistant, helping to carry out evictions himself and quickly learning the real estate schemes that exploit government and banking rules to the disadvantage of struggling homeowners.

On his rounds, he encounters the father of his son's best friend, but the man turns hostile toward Dennis when he sees him become part of Rick's eviction business.

Dennis eventually obeys Rick's order to deliver the missing document to court defeating the homeowner's legal case.

Fearing that the man, whose family is also in the house, will likely be killed in a shoot-out, Dennis confesses to giving a forged document to the court.

On July 24, 2013, Andrew Garfield signed on to play Dennis Nash, an unemployed contractor who loses his home to foreclosure.

[9] Later on September 13, Michael Shannon joined the cast of the film to play Rick Carver, who teaches Dennis the legal and illegal ins-and-outs of the foreclosure game.

The website's consensus reads: "Fueled by powerful acting and a taut, patiently constructed narrative, 99 Homes is a modern economic parable whose righteous fury is matched by its intelligence and compassion.

"[23] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 76 out of 100, based on 31 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

"[25] Guy Lodge of Variety magazine wrote: "This dynamically acted, unapologetically contrived pic reps the filmmaker's best chance to date of connecting with a wider audience—one likely to share the helmer’s bristling anger over corruptly maintained class divides in modern-day America.