The House I Live In (2012 film)
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 |
Release dates |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
Country |
United States International[1] |
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.
Participants
- Michelle Alexander (civil rights litigator and the author of "The New Jim Crow")
- Shanequa Benitez (resident of Cromwell Towers housing project, Yonkers, New York)
- The Honorable Mark W. Bennett (U.S. District Court Judge. Sioux City, Iowa)
- Charles Bowden (journalist covering drug war-caused violence on the U.S.-Mexico border)
- Mike Carpenter (Chief of Security, Lexington Corrections Center, Lexington, Oklahoma)
- Marshal Larry Cearley (Police Department, Magdalena, New Mexico)
- Eric Franklin (Warden, Lexington Corrections Center, Lexington, Oklahoma)
- Maurice Haltiwanger (sentenced to 20 years for crack cocaine distribution)
- Dr. Carl Hart[2] (Professor of Clinical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York)
- Nannie Jeter (resident of New Haven, Connecticut)
- Anthony Johnson (former, small-time drug dealer, Yonkers, New York)
- Dr. Gabor Maté (Hungarian-born physician specializing in the treatment of addiction - has been working in Vancouver, Canada for several decades)
- Mark Mauer[3] (Director, The Sentencing Project)
- Richard Lawrence Miller[4] (American historian and expert on the history of U.S. drug laws)
- Charles Ogletree (Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a former academic advisor to Barack and Michelle Obama)
- Kevin Ott (serving life without parole on drug charges, Lexington Correctional Center, Lexington, Oklahoma)
- Susan Randall[5] (Private investigator in Vermont - formerly a journalist/producer for National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Vermont Public Radio, and a researcher and associate producer for the A&E series Biography)
- David Simon (creator of The Wire on HBO)
- Julie Stewart (President and founder of Families Against Mandatory Minimums aka FAMM)
- Dennis Whidbee (former drug dealer, and the father of Anthony Johnson)
- Officer Fabio Zuena (Providence Police Department, Rhode Island)
- David Kennedy (Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in NYC)
Reception
The documentary has been well received. Among the review aggregators, Rotten Tomatoes gave it 95% based on 55 reviews[6] and Metacritic gave it 77/100 based on 24 reviews.[7] Roger Ebert says The House I Live In "makes a shattering case against the War on Drugs."[8] 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".[9]
Awards
- January 2012: Won the Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
- April 2014: Won a Peabody Award.[10]
See also
References
- ↑ "The House I Live In at Landmark Theatres". Landmark Theatres. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
- ↑ "Substance Use Research Center". Surc.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2013-06-05.
- ↑ "Marc Mauer". The Sentencing Project. Retrieved 2013-06-05.
- ↑ "Richard Lawrence Miller: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2013-06-05.
- ↑ "Susan Randall – Founder & Director". VTPrivateeye.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2013-06-05.
- ↑ The House I Live In at Rotten Tomatoes
- ↑ The House I Live In at Metacritic
- ↑ Ebert, Roger (October 10, 2012). "The House I Live In :: roberbert.com :: Reviews". Sun Times. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
- ↑ Bradshaw, Peter (November 22, 2012). "The House I Live In – review". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/independent-lens-the-house-i-live-in-pbs
External links
- Official website
- The House I Live In at the Internet Movie Database
- National Public Radio Interview with Eugene Jarecki
- National Public Radio Article
- Appelo, Tim (January 29, 2012). "Sundance 2012: Grand Jury Prizewinner Eugene Jarecki on Drug War Doc, 'The House I Live In' (Q&A)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 14, 2013.
- Higgins, Bill (October 12, 2012). "Brad Pitt Promotes 'The House I Live In' at Los Angeles Screening". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 14, 2013.
- Barnes, Henry (November 22, 2012). "The House I Live In director Eugene Jarecki on the war on drugs: 'Everybody is a victim' - video". The Guardian. Retrieved January 14, 2013.
Awards | ||
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Preceded by How to Die in Oregon |
Sundance Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary 2012 |
Succeeded by Blood Brother |
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