Synopsis
Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.
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Cast
- Matthew CookeNarrator (voice)
- Woody HarrelsonSelf
- Susan SarandonSelf
- Barry CooperSelf
- EminemSelf
- 50 CentSelf
- David SimonSelf
- Arianna HuffingtonSelf
- 'Freeway' Ricky RossSelf
Recommendations
- 90
Village Voice
It's a smart, funny, tough-minded film crammed with data and personal anecdotes, each illuminating the other, each sketching in the staggering costs—and not just financial—of the ways authorities in this country have shaped the drug issue. It's far from glib. - 80
Los Angeles Times
As the filmmaker unfurls the harsh, essential facts, both past and present, about America's complex relationship with drugs — along with tobacco and alcohol's longtime place in the equation — the movie gains serious power and momentum. - 80
Salon
Despite its slick packaging and overtly facetious premise, director Matthew Cooke and producer Adrian Grenier’s faux-educational documentary How to Make Money Selling Drugs packs a wallop. - 80
NPR
Whether or not you agree with its underlying critique of existing drug policy, How To Make Money Selling Drugs is an ambitious, creative attempt to talk in a single film about everything from the disparate treatment of black and white dealers to the influence of asset forfeiture on law-enforcement strategies to the devastation of Mexico's drug war. - 75
Slant Magazine
The film employs a flashy text-and-graphics aesthetic that immediately brings to mind the satirical undercurrent of a Grand Theft Auto video game. - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
As it turns out, making money selling drugs is pretty win-win as far as it goes, but keeping it is another matter. So the title isn’t so much a joke as a bleak comment on a desperately cynical economy: In the drug trade, as well as the dubious “war” declared against it, everybody ultimately loses. - 67
The A.V. Club
How to Make Money Selling Drugs is breezy fun, even when it eventually turns openly cynical. - 60
The New York Times
There’s a lot to learn from How to Make Money Selling Drugs, but sometimes there’s just a lot.
