Hotel Rwanda (2004)

I have already seen this movie, only once at the theater. I loved it. I thought it was one of the best movies I saw last year. I was amazed at how much information I just had no clue about the whole Rwanda situation. How sad it was, that while all that was going on, we were busy focusing on the stupid OJ Simpson fiasco. How sad, and embarassing. I used Joaquin Phoenix (current best actor nominee...for anyone who might have forgotten!) as the excuse for being able to count this movie. It didn't get nominated for Best Picture, but in my opinion, it certainly should have. Don Cheadle was just incredible. the whole movie had me so emotional the first time I saw it, that I literally cried through most of it. I think its an important movie though, and I think all americans need to see movies like this so they can open their eyes to whats going on in the rest of the world, and not being so self centered, or focusing on the media freak shows instead of whats really important.