The House I Live In (2012 film)

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The House I Live In
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Directed by Eugene Jarecki
Written byEugene Jarecki
Produced by
  • Eugene Jarecki
  • Melinda Shopsin
Starring
Cinematography
  • Sam Cullman
  • Derek Hallquist
Music by Robert Miller
Distributed byAbramorama
Release date
  • October 5, 2012 (2012-10-05)
Running time
108 minutes
CountriesUnited States
International [1]
LanguageEnglish

The House I Live In, directed by Eugene Jarecki, is a 2012 documentary film about the War on Drugs in the United States.

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Participants

Reception

The documentary has been well received. Among the review aggregators, Rotten Tomatoes gave it 94% based on 56 reviews [8] and Metacritic gave it 77/100 based on 24 reviews. [9] Roger Ebert says The House I Live In "makes a shattering case against the War on Drugs." [10] 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". [11]

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Awards
Preceded by Sundance Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary
2012
Succeeded by
Blood Brother