Anthony Johnson (former small-time drug dealer in Yonkers, New York)
Dr.
Gabor Maté (Hungarian-born physician specializing in the treatment of addiction - has been working in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for several decades)
Charles Ogletree (Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a former academic advisor to Barack and Michelle Obama)
Kevin Ott (formerly[6] serving life without parole on drug charges, Lexington Correctional Center, Lexington, Oklahoma)
Susan Randall[7] (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)
The documentary has been well received. Among the
review aggregators,
Rotten Tomatoes gave it 94% based on 56 reviews[8] and
Metacritic gave it 77/100 based on 24 reviews.[9]Roger Ebert says The House I Live In "makes a shattering case against the War on Drugs."[10]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".[11]
Anthony Johnson (former small-time drug dealer in Yonkers, New York)
Dr.
Gabor Maté (Hungarian-born physician specializing in the treatment of addiction - has been working in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for several decades)
Charles Ogletree (Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a former academic advisor to Barack and Michelle Obama)
Kevin Ott (formerly[6] serving life without parole on drug charges, Lexington Correctional Center, Lexington, Oklahoma)
Susan Randall[7] (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)
The documentary has been well received. Among the
review aggregators,
Rotten Tomatoes gave it 94% based on 56 reviews[8] and
Metacritic gave it 77/100 based on 24 reviews.[9]Roger Ebert says The House I Live In "makes a shattering case against the War on Drugs."[10]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".[11]