From Executive Producers DANNY GLOVER, JOHN LEGEND, BRAD PITT & RUSSELL SIMMONS
A FILM BYEUGENE JARECKI
As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans. Over forty years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels of America's War on Drugs. From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside America's longest war, offering a definitive portrait and revealing its profound human rights implications.
While recognizing the seriousness of drug abuse as a matter of public health, the film investigates the tragic errors and shortcomings that have meant it is more often treated as a matter for law enforcement, creating a vast machine that feeds largely on America's poor, and especially on minority communities. Beyond simple misguided policy, The House I Live In examines how political and economic corruption have fueled the war for forty years, despite persistent evidence of its moral, economic, and practical failures.
EVERY DAY MORE PEOPLE AGREE
THE WAR ON DRUGS HAS FAILED
JOIN THEM AND MUST CHANGE
Comprehensive in scope, heart wrenching in its humanity, and brilliant in its thesis, Jarecki's new film grabs viewers and shakes them to their core. The House I Live In is not only the definitive film on the failure of America's drug war, but it is also a masterpiece filled with hope and the potential to effect change. This film is surely destined for the annals of documentary history.
– SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2012
FEARLESS! A model of the ambitious, vitalizing activist work that exists to stir the sleeping to wake.
2012′s BEST DOCUMENTARY! The House I Live In should be seen by everybody.
– FORBES
SEARING! One of the most important pieces of nonfiction to hit the screen in years.
– LOS ANGELES TIMES
Expertly researched, brilliantly argued and masterfully assembled, it is easily the documentary of the year.
– TIMES PICAYUNE
Eugene Jarecki's incisive and incendiary The House I Live In, which won the U.S. documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and might win next year's doc Oscar, will blow your mind.
Join the movement, Get INVOLVED !!!
Look for the 2-Part OUR COMMON GROUND Special Broadcast with the Producers and Consultants on this film in January, 2013.
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