The House I Live In | |
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Directed by | Eugene Jarecki |
Produced by | Eugene Jarecki Melinda Shopsin |
Written by | Eugene Jarecki |
Starring |
Nannie Jeter David Simon |
Music by | Robert Miller |
Cinematography | Sam Cullman Derek Hallquist |
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Running time
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108 minutes |
Country | United States International |
Language | English |
The House I Live In, directed by Eugene Jarecki, is a 2012 documentary film about the War on Drugs in the United States.
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 [that] contends it is a grotesquely wasteful public-works scheme".