The City Addicted to Crystal Meth | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Distributed by | BBC |
Produced by | Louis Theroux |
Written by | Louis Theroux |
Starring | Louis Theroux |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Release date | 9 August 2009 |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Preceded by | A Place for Paedophiles |
Followed by | America's Medicated Kids |
The City Addicted to Crystal Meth is a British documentary by Louis Theroux.[1] It was televised on 9 August 2009. Theroux filmed his documentary in Fresno, California which has one of the highest number of crystal meth users in the United States.[2]
The documentary had mixed reviews.[3] The Times said "Theroux risks becoming the Alan Whicker de nos jours, a tourist with a typewriter, peering into these other lives but rarely getting dirty himself."[4]
The Dominion Post criticised Louis Theroux interviewing method "...an increasingly grim-faced Theroux admitted he was at risk of becoming desensitised to the moving tide of human misery where the stories were a horrid template to be fitted over each twisted face."[5]
The Guardian called the work "an extraordinary film, a sad portrait of a very different California" [1]