About this movie
- Genres:
- Documentary
- Language:
- English
- Running time:
- 1:48:52
- Partner rating:
- Released:
- 2011
Cast & Crew
Cast
- Michelle Alexander
- Shaniqua Benitez
- Mark Bennett
- Mike Carpenter
- Larry Cearly
- Eric Franklin
- Glendon Goldsboro
- Maurice Haltiwanger
- Carl Hart
- Nannie Jeter
Directors
- Eugene Jarecki
Producers
- Melinda Shopsin
- Chris St. John
- Sam Cullman
- Christopher St. John
- Eugene Jarecki
Writers
- Eugene Jarecki
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The House I Live In
Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes
93%
percent positive reviews
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Claude Peck, Minneapolis Star Tribune
The movie's indictment would be more persuasive had Jarecki recognized that his audience likely already knows most of what he recaps, and can handle the odd scrap of ambiguity.
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Tom Long, Detroit News
"The House I Live In" leaves you shaking your head in deadened wonder at the waste of it all.
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Kate Muir, Times [UK]
One of the best documentaries out this year, and a must-see for Senate and Congress in America.
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Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]
An angry and personal attack on America's war on drugs contends it is a grotesquely wasteful public-works scheme.
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Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph
This urgent and formidably smart movie - perhaps the year's most important political documentary - has opened minds and changed laws already.
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Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Tells a complex story with troubling ease.
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