The last king of Scotland

Author

Forest Whitaker

Call Number

• DVD DRAMA (CEN, EAS)

Edition

Widescreen version.

Performers

Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney.

Publication Information

Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2007.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This film chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. His despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a 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. Seduced by Amin's charisma and blinded by decadence, Garrigan's dream life becomes a waking nightmare of betrayal and madness from which there is no escape.

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.

Videodisc release of the 2006 motion picture.

Based on the book by Giles Foden.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Rated R for some strong violence and gruesome images, sexual content and language.

In English with optional Spanish language soundtrack ; optional subtitles in English, Spanish and French.