Hotel Rwanda | 
| Director: Terry George
Actors: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Xolani Mali, Desmond Dube
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  329 reviews
Sales Rank: 3992
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 121 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 027616925121
ISBN: 079286686X
UPC: 027616925121
EAN: 9780792866862
ASIN: B0007R4T3U
Theatrical Release Date: February 4, 2005
Release Date: April 12, 2005
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Product Description
A five-star-hotel manager in Rwanda risks his life when he opens his hotel to more than a thousand Tutsis refugees in order to protect them from death.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 4-APR-2006
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com
Solidly 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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 Horrible Service!!! May 23, 2009
S. Pannill (Texas USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I strongly recommend that you NOT do any business with this individual. The first time I played this DVD, I discovered a scratch (or "skip") or whatever. The point is, it had some damage. Although I sent at least THREE E-mail messages to "mama mea" (over a period of about one week) I NEVER heard from her. She NEVER contacted me, so I was unable to obtain directions on how to "return"/"exchange" the damaged item. I was stuck with it. Do business with this individual ONLY AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
 Hotel Rwanda March 24, 2009
M. Rheingans (Minnesota)
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.
Hotel Rwanda is the "anti-Gandhi" March 15, 2009
smthu (SW)
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...
 Better than expected March 7, 2009
Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL)
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.
excellent film March 1, 2009
E. Fittin (Morristown, NJ United States)
Well acted and good presentation of the heroic efforts in Rwanda of so many during the civil war. Not too graphic, sensative.
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