Hotel Rwanda
by Terry George
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Actor: Desmond Dube, Don Cheadle, Joaquin Phoenix, Sophie Okonedo, Xolani MaliDirector: Terry George
Brand: CHEADLE,DON
Writer: Terry George
Producer: A. Kitman Ho
Producer: Bridget Pickering
Producer: Duncan Reid
Producer: Francesco Melzi d'Eril
Producer: Hal Sadoff
Writer: Keir Pearson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-12
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
DVD Review: Hotel Rwanda
Summary: 5 Stars
After reading Cross Country by James Patterson I wanted to find out more about the genocide in Africa and a friend suggested this movie. It is excellent and gave me another look at this horrible situation.DVD Review: Hotel Rwanda is the "anti-Gandhi"
Summary: 5 Stars
What is "anti-Gandhi"?
Well, it meant that the native colonial middle class whom had assisted the colonial power to subjugate the native masses forever and forever, better hope the colonial power and her military and European connections do not leave town, else the masses might rise up and slaughter the "traitors", as they would be seen as in the post-colonial world. Unless of course they themselves become brutal and oppressive...
DVD Review: Better than expected
Summary: 4 Stars
Normally, I'm not a big fan of message movies. Usually the politically correct leanings of the director are more than I care to endure. However, this one surprised me because it's good film-making, in addition to carrying a very heavy message about man's inhumanity to man. Don Cheadle does a great job as the noble hotel manager. The violence is visible, bit not gagging. I add my thumbs up to this very popular flick. DVD Review: excellent film
Summary: 4 Stars
Well acted and good presentation of the heroic efforts in Rwanda of so many during the civil war. Not too graphic, sensative.DVD Review: Hotel Rwanda - Compelling movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a compelling movie. It evokes a response from anyone with an ounce of compassion for other people, especially people who are suffering and experiencing human injustice. While it is clear that a human tragedy is occurring around the scenes of the movie, this is not a gruesome depiction of violence as a mere news documentary would be. The chilling account of man's inhumanity to his own countrymen and neighbors is a challenge to our sense of right and wrong, particularly when overlaid with the developed world's withdrawal and apathy of self-serving comfort and affluence succinctly summarized by the news photographer in an early scene of the movie. The story is, however, more than that of brutality and civil war. It is the story of the love of a man for his family, and the response of one courageous individual who stands against the tide of atrocity. The DVD contains a documentary on the making of the movie- interviewing the writer and director- that is worthwhile, as well as a filming of the hero of the movie when he returned to Rwanda after several years in Belgium. Those help to concretize the reality of this movie and the need for people to appreciate the sadness that we inherit in the developed world as we must admit that we withdrew our own people and the UN forces at a time of desperate need. The idea of the UN presence as a "peacekeeping force" is revealed for what it is- lacking independent authority and impotent in the face of true danger abroad while people far away and behind desks banter about words of peace. As a Christian, I am ashamed that my country did not do more during that terrible slaughter.
Description of Hotel Rwanda
Once you find out what happened in Rwanda, you'll never forget. Oscar?(r) nominee* Don Cheadle (Traffic) gives "the performance of his career in this extraordinarily powerful" (The Hollywood Reporter) and moving true story of one man's brave stance against savagery during the 1994 Rwandan conflict. Sophie Okonedo (Dirty Pretty Things) co-stars as the loving wife who challenges a good man to become a great man. As his country descends into madness, five-star-hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina (Cheadle) sets out to save his family. But when he sees that theworld will not intervene in the massacre of minority Tutsis, he finds the courage to open his hotelto more than 1,200 refugees. Now, with a rabid militia at the gates, he must use his well-honed grace, flattery and cunning to protect his guests from certain death. *2004: Actor, Hotel RwandaSolidly built around a subtle yet commanding performance by Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda emerged as one of the most highly-praised dramas of 2004. In a role that demands his quietly riveting presence in nearly every scene, Cheadle plays real-life hero Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in the Rwandan capital of Kigali who in 1994 saved 1,200 Rwandan "guests" from certain death during the genocidal clash between tribal Hutus, who slaughtered a million victims, and the horrified Tutsis, who found safe haven or died. Giving his best performance since his breakthrough role in Devil in a Blue Dress, Cheadle plays Rusesabagina as he really was during the ensuing chaos: "an expert in situational ethics" (as described by critic Roger Ebert), doing what he morally had to do, at great risk and potential sacrifice, with an understanding that wartime negotiations are largely a game of subterfuge, cooperation, and clever bribery. Aided by a United Nations official (Nick Nolte), he worked a saintly miracle, and director Terry George (Some Mother's Son) brings formidable social conscience to bear on a true story you won't soon forget. --Jeff Shannon
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