The City Addicted to Crystal Meth
{{short description|2009 documentary film}}
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| writer = Louis Theroux
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The City Addicted to Crystal Meth is a British documentary by Louis Theroux.{{cite news|title= Louis Theroux – The City Addicted to Crystal Meth – Grizzly Bear Face-Off: Austin Stevens' Adventures|work= The Guardian|date=10 August 2009|url= https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/aug/10/louis-theroux-crystal-meth|accessdate=21 September 2010|location=London|first=Sam|last=Wollaston}} It was televised on 9 August 2009. Theroux filmed his documentary in Fresno, California which has one of the highest number of crystal meth users in the United States.{{cite news|title= This quality drama is best on the box|work= Lancaster and Morecambe Citizen|date=13 August 2009|url= http://www.thelancasterandmorecambecitizen.co.uk/leisure/4543916.This_quality_drama_is_best_on_the_box/|accessdate=4 October 2010}}
Reception
The documentary garnered mixed reviews.{{cite news|title=The Weekend's Television: Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth, Sun, BBC2 Revelations: Talking to The Dead, Sun, Channel 4 Rock'n'Roll Hotel, Fri, BBC1|work=The Independent|date=10 August 2009|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/the-weekends-television-louis-theroux-the-city-addicted-to-crystal-meth-sun-bbc2brrevelations-talking-to-the-dead-sun-channel-4brrocknroll-hotel-fri-bbc1-1769839.html|accessdate=4 October 2010|location=London|first=Tom|last=Sutcliffe}} The Times said "Theroux risks becoming the Alan Whicker de nos jours, a tourist with a typewriter, peering into these other lives but rarely getting dirty himself."{{cite news|title=Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth; Jam & Jerusalem|work=The Times|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6787612.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615164351/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6787612.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 June 2011|accessdate=4 October 2010}}
The Guardian called the work "an extraordinary film, a sad portrait of a very different California".
References
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{{Louis Theroux}}
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Category:Louis Theroux's BBC Two specials
Category:BBC television documentaries
Category:2009 television specials
Category:Documentary films about drug addiction
Category:Culture of Fresno, California
Category:Methamphetamine in the United States
Category:Documentary films about cities in the United States
Category:Documentary films about California