
From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.... (Full plot summary below)
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From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.
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| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyThis urgent and formidably smart movie - perhaps the year's most important political documentary - has opened minds and changed laws already. |
| Seven DaysRick KisonakA devastating dispatch from the front lines of America's war on drugs, the film tracks the rise of the prison-industrial complex as masterfully as the filmmaker's previous work took on its older military-industrial cousin. |
| San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonJarecki takes a highly original approach to create a compelling, thought-provoking look at a highly relevant and controversial topic. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenIt's a film as profoundly sad as it is enraging and potentially galvanizing, and it's one of the most important pieces of nonfiction to hit the screen in years. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineImportant documentaries like this one can spark a range of responses: righteous anger, informed action or exhausted hopelessness. And we experience all three in Jarecki's lucid, engaging, staggeringly urgent film. |
| Times-PicayuneMike ScottThe House I Live In is not a comfortable film to consider in any respect, but without discomfort it's hard to feel anger - and without anger, it's hard to imagine that anything will ever be done about it. |
| Cineaste MagazineMaria GarciaWhat makes The House I Live In so potent is the filmmaker's sincerity. Despite a preference for sweeping statements and conclusions, he establishes palpable emotional connections to several of his subjects who are victims of the war on drugs. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesJarecki's case is so compelling that, when he concludes by comparing the drug war to the Holocaust, the obvious charge of hyperbole doesn't quite stick. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe ambitious look at the drug problem here offers a too simplistic view that demands a more critical and more inclusive look. |
| Reno Gazette-JournalForrest HartmanAmericans have long celebrated justice and freedom, but director Eugene Jarecki's The House I Live In forces viewers to look closely at political policies that have turned the nation into the No. 1 jailer in the world. |