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The last king of Scotland / Fox Searchlight Pictures, DNA Films and FilmFour present in association with the UK Film Council and Scottish Screen a Cowboy Films/Slate Films production ; produced by Lisa Bryer, Andrea Calderwood, Charles Steel ; screenplay by Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock ; directed by Kevin Macdonald.

Bryer, Lisa. (Added Author). Calderwood, Andrea. (Added Author). Steel, Charles. (Added Author). Morgan, Peter, 1963- (Added Author). Brock, Jeremy, 1959- (Added Author). Macdonald, Kevin, 1967- (Added Author). Whitaker, Forest. (Added Author). McAvoy, James, 1979- (Added Author). Washington, Kerry, 1977- (Added Author). Anderson, Gillian, 1968- (Added Author). McBurney, Simon. (Added Author). Mantle, Anthony Dod, 1955- (Added Author). Wright, Justine. (Added Author). Heffes, Alex. (Added Author). Foden, Giles, 1967- Last king of Scotland. (Added Author). Fox Searchlight Pictures. (Added Author). DNA Films. (Added Author). FilmFour (Firm) (Added Author). UK Film Council. (Added Author). Scottish Screen (Organization) (Added Author). Cowboy Films. (Added Author). Slate Films. (Added Author). Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, (production company.). Criterion-on-Demand (Firm), (distributor.). Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney. (Cast).

Summary:

Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a fictional Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding ground for Amin's genocidal tyranny.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (120 min.) : digital, sound, color
Publisher: Beverly Hills, California : 20th Century Fox Film Corp., 2006.
Distributor: Vaughan, ON : Criterion-on-Demand, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Based on the book: The last king of Scotland / Giles Foden. Originally released as a motion picture by 20th Century Fox Film Corp., 2006.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Access restricted to subscribers.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director of photography, Anthony Dod Mantle ; editor, Justine Wright ; music, Alex Heffes.
Participant or Performer Note:	Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney.
Target Audience Note:	MPAA rating: R; for some strong violence and gruesome images, sexual content and language.
System Details Note:	Content available as downloadable file or streaming video.
Awards Note:	Golden Globe Awards, 2007: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Pictures - Drama (Forest Whitaker) Academy Awards, 2006: Best actor (Whitaker)
Source of Description Note:	Title from distributor's web site (viewed February 3, 2015).