TY - ADVS AU - Whitaker,Forest AU - McAvoy,James AU - Washington,Kerry AU - Anderson,Gillian AU - McBurney,Simon AU - Bryer,Lisa AU - Calderwood,Andrea AU - Steel,Charles AU - Morgan,Peter AU - Brock,Jeremy AU - Macdonald,Kevin AU - Foden,Giles ED - Fox Searchlight Pictures. ED - DNA Films. ED - FilmFour (Firm) ED - UK Film Council. ED - Scottish Screen (Organization) ED - Cowboy Films. ED - Slate Films. ED - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Ltd. TI - The last king of Scotland AV - PN1995.9.S87 L378 2007 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Beverly Hills, Calif. PB - 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment KW - Amin, Idi, KW - Dictators KW - Uganda KW - Drama KW - Physician and patient KW - Genocide KW - Despotism KW - Politics and government KW - 1971-1979 KW - History KW - Feature films KW - Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.) KW - Biographical films KW - Historical films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Thriller KW - Feature KW - migfg KW - Biographical KW - Historical KW - gsafd KW - Suspense films N1 - Based on the novel by Giles Foden; Director of photography, Anthony Dod Mantle ; editor, Justine Wright ; music, Alex Heffes ; costume designer, Michael O'Connor ; production designer, Michael Carlin ; special effects supervisor, Sebastian Bulst ; visual effects supervisors, John Lockwood, Steve Street; Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney; MPAA rating: R; for some strong violence and gruesome images, sexual content and language N2 - Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's 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 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. Amin is both seductive and horribly destructive. Garrigan grows increasingly prone to exploitation ER -