HOTEL RWANDA
Released: December 22, 2004
Don Cheadle stars in the true-life story of a modern day Schindler named Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsis refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. Like "Schindler's List", "Hotel Rwanda" is brutally tragic. It shows that since Schindler's WW2 experience not much has changed. The movie does have humor though, but genuine and naturally occuring. It's a real shame on western countries how Rwanda escaped any real news coverage. See this movie and catch a glimpse of the horors that happened in 1994. There isn't actually much violence in the movie but scenes where Cheadle is driving down a highway in the fog and the highway gets progressively bumpy, only to discover that they hadn't drove off the road but that they were simply driving over hundreds of corpses littering the roadway - are very capable of telling the ghastly story without actually showing the killings. This is a tragic story but told in a very thoughtful manner.
110 Minutes
Lions Gate Films/United Artists/MGM