Hotel Rwanda (2004)

 

Release date: December 22, 2004

Director: Terry George

Writer(s): Keir Pearson, Terry George

Starring: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo

Estimated budget: $17,500,000

U.S. Box Office: $23,530,892

Foreign: $10,351,351

Worldwide: $33,882,243

 

Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), a Hutu, manages the Hôtel des Mille Collines and lives a happy life with his Tutsi wife (Sophie Okonedo) and their three children. But when Hutu military forces initiate a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Tutsi minority, Paul is compelled to allow refugees to take shelter in his hotel. As the U.N. pulls out, Paul must struggle alone to protect the Tutsi refugees in the face of the escalating violence later known as the Rwandan genocide.