The Last King of Scotland

Release Date:

Sep 27, 2006

MPAA Rating:

R

Running Time:

2:01

Genre:

Biography,Drama

Director:

Kevin Macdonald

Cast:

Forest Whitaker	Idi Amin
James McAvoy	Nicholas Garrigan
Kerry Washington	Kay Amin
Gillian Anderson	Sara Merrit
Simon McBurney	Stone
David Oyelowo	Dr. Junju
Stephen Rwangyezi	Jonah Wasswa
Abby Mukiibi	Masanga
Adam Kotz	Dr. Merrit

Producers:

Lisa Bryer , Andrea Calderwood , Charles Steel , Andrew Macdonald , Allon Reich , Tessa Ross

Writers:

Peter Morgan, Jeremy Brock

Language:

English

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While in Uganda on a medical mission, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the personal physician and close confidante of dictator Idi Amin . Although at first Dr. Garrigan feels flattered by his new position of power, he soon comes to realize that Amin's rule is soaked in blood, and that he is complicit in the atrocities. Garrigan faces the fight of his life as he tries to escape Amin's grasp.

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