The House I Live In (2012 film)
The House I Live In, directed by Eugene Jarecki, is a 2012 documentary film about the War on Drugs in the United States.Participants
- Michelle Alexander
- Shanequa Benitez
- The Honorable Mark W. Bennett
- Charles Bowden
- Mike Carpenter
- Marshal Larry Cearley
- Eric Franklin
- Maurice Haltiwanger
- Dr. Carl Hart
- Nannie Jeter
- Anthony Johnson
- Dr. Gabor Maté
- Mark Mauer
- Richard Lawrence Miller
- Charles Ogletree
- Kevin Ott
- Susan Randall
- David Simon
- Julie Stewart
- Dennis Whidbee
- Officer Fabio Zuena
- David Kennedy
Reception
The documentary has been well received. Among the review aggregators, Rotten Tomatoes gave it 95% based on 55 reviews and Metacritic gave it 77/100 based on 24 reviews. Roger Ebert says The House I Live In "makes a shattering case against the War on Drugs." Peter Bradshaw reviewed the film for The Guardian and summed it up as an "angry and personal attack on America's war on drugs contends it is a grotesquely wasteful public-works scheme".Awards
