SummaryA shockingly candid examination of how a street dealer can rise to cartel lord with relative ease, How to Make Money Selling Drugs is an insider's guide to the violent but extremely lucrative drug industry. Told from the perspective of former drug dealers, and featuring interviews with rights advocates Russell Simmons, Susan Sarandon, and David S... Read More
Directed By:Matthew Cooke
Written By:Matthew Cooke, Grant Jolly
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
Metascore
Generally Favorable
69
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Universal Acclaim
9.0
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
78% Positive
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17% Mixed
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Jun 25, 2013
90
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.
Dec 17, 2013
80
The result is entertaining and insightful, balancing cold statistics with real-life stories of success and tragedy, presenting a broad, clear-eyed view of an increasingly complex issue.
Jun 27, 2013
80
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.
Jun 24, 2013
75
The film employs a flashy text-and-graphics aesthetic that immediately brings to mind the satirical undercurrent of a Grand Theft Auto video game.
Jun 29, 2013
67
The biggest failing of this mostly enjoyable documentary is that it works like a Michael Moore film. It probably won't convince those outside the circle, it will only serve to push them further away.
Dec 28, 2013
60
Various colourful characters including Freeway Rick Ross, the man who invented crack, and ex-cop Barry Cooper explain the tricks of the trade, but none of it will be news to anyone who's watched "Breaking Bad" or "The Wire."
Jun 26, 2013
25
While it won't win any Oscars, Matthew Cooke's new documentary How To Make Money Selling Drugs may take the prize for being the shallowest and most glib film of the year.
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Universal Acclaim
92% Positive
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Dec 14, 2019
10
Selling drugs to morons is so much easier and more profitable in Orange County than anyone could imagine except for anyone who has ever payed attention to a documentary. I do like drugs all the drugs like cocaine Molly thc orgasms alcohol mushrooms lsd orgasms k mdma.. Heroine and meth seem kinda bad When people don't pay someone gets to hurt them. That might be better than the money. and sex. I like sex high or after getting high. Mdma blowjobs trying to throat her
Production Company:
- Bert Marcus Productions
Release Date:Jun 26, 2013
Duration:1 h 36 m
Awards
Newport Beach Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
International Documentary Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Champs-Élysées Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
