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The film, "99 Homes" has been out for awhile. My guess is that it's audience dwindles when people find out that the subject matter is the recent real estate bust that accompanied the economic turn down of 2008. Like the Academy Award winning "The Big Short," this is a film about the winners and losers. But, with a twist. A hard working single parent living with his son and his mother falls on hard times when construction work get cuts back and ultimately gets foreclosed upon. The twist comes when he ends up going to work for the very real estate agent that gives him the bad news. What follows is a subtle portray and even more subtle discussion of the value conflict in this culture over property, the American Dream of owning a home, and ultimately playing the game fairly. Our hero makes some bad decisions in his haste to regain his home. In fact the definition of the difference between a house and a home lies in the balance. Similarly, a situation i