Why We Fight director Eugene Jarecki shifts his focus from the military industrial complex to the War on Drugs in this documentary exploring the risks that prohibition poses to freedom, and the tragedy of addicts being treated as criminals. In the four decades since the War on Drugs commenced, over 45 millions of addicts have been arrested - and for each one jailed, another family is destroyed. Meanwhile, the prisons in America are growing overcrowded with non-violent criminals, and illegal drugs are still being sold in schoolyards. By examining just where it all went wrong, Jarecki reveals that a solution is possible if we can just find it in ourselves to be compassionate, and see past the decades of paranoia and propaganda. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Release Date : Oct 5, 2012 Wide
Mpaa Rating : Unrated Genre Movie :Documentary,Special Interest
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Michelle Alexander,Shaniqua Benitez,Mark Bennett,Mike Carpenter,Larry Cearly,Eric Franklin,Glendon Goldsboro,Maurice Haltiwanger,Carl Hart,Nannie Jeter,Anthony Johnson,Gabor Mate,Mark Mauer,Richard Lawrence Miller,Charles J. Ogletree Jr.,Kevin Ott,Susan Randall,David Simon,Julie Stewart,Dennis Whidbee
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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.
Claude Peck-Minneapolis Star Tribune "The House I Live In" leaves you shaking your head in deadened wonder at the waste of it all.
Tom Long-Detroit News Tells a complex story with troubling ease.
Dave Calhoun-Time Out The House I Live In is a work of journalism, not propaganda: Jarecki has done his research and leaves it to you to decide what to make of it.
Rene Rodriguez-Miami Herald If [it] takes a while to focus, it eventually becomes the conversation starter the subject desperately needs.
Ty Burr-Boston Globe Jarecki takes a highly original approach to create a compelling, thought-provoking look at a highly relevant and controversial topic.
G. Allen Johnson-San Francisco Chronicle Whatever your politics, you will find things to astonish and flabbergast and enrage you in what is perhaps the most cool-headed examination of America's relationship to illegal drugs ever.
MaryAnn Johanson-Flick Filosopher Somehow, Jarecki pulls it off, circling his subject and revisiting key themes as he constructs the convincing argument that, while the drug war may affect only a certain segment of the population, it's everyone's problem.
T'Cha Dunlevy-Montreal Gazette Our search for easy answers to the evils of drugs is an addiction we must wean ourselves from.
Dan Lybarger-KC Active A compelling investigation into the roots of America's war on drugs, which has massively increased prison numbers whilst failing to reduce drug abuse.
-Scotsman This fine film makes surprising connections and offers provocative arguments.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)-St. Paul Pioneer Press It is the insiders, the prisoners themselves who are most cinema-eloquent, along with a surprising Iowa U.S District Court judge and an Oklahoma corrections center security chief.
Donald J. Levit-ReelTalk Movie Reviews Jarecki's arguments, presented as a very personal response to the war on drugs, are unashamedly those of a left-wing libertarian. They are also enormously compelling and extremely convincing.
Miles Fielder-The List Suffused with a righteous anger that Jarecki methodically turns up to full boil, The House I Live In is an emotionally shattering work, but also one with a hefty, legitimate intellectual punching power.
Brent Simon-Shared Darkness The ambitious look at the drug problem here offers a too simplistic view that demands a more critical and more inclusive look.
Dennis Schwartz-Ozus' World Movie Reviews What this film argues, pretty convincingly, is that the war on drugs is much worse than a failure. It argues that it is tearing our society apart.
Robert Roten-Laramie Movie Scope Jarecki makes clear that all our efforts and investments in fighting the War on Drugs haven't yielded any real success, only ruined lives, families and communities. There comes a point in any war where it becomes important to ask: Is it worth it?
Jeff Meyers-Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Expertly researched, brilliantly argued and masterfully assembled, it is also easily the documentary of the year.
Mike Scott-Times-Picayune One of the finest documentaries of the year, this involving film is lucid, sharply well shot and edited, and ultimately so important that it's rather terrifying to watch.
Rich Cline-Contactmusic.com A wide-ranging examination of the futile, self-defeating "war on drugs" ...
Philip French-Observer [UK] One of the best documentaries out this year, and a must-see for Senate and Congress in America.
Kate Muir-Times [UK] An angry and personal attack on America's war on drugs contends it is a grotesquely wasteful public-works scheme.
Peter Bradshaw-Guardian [UK] Jarecki is a stickler for sticking to his subject, or sub-subject, until it squeals like a leech victim.
Nigel Andrews-Financial Times Jarecki offers 100 small conclusions rather than one big one for you to take away.
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