The last king of Scotland [videorecording]

Resource Information

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Label

The last king of Scotland [videorecording]

Statement of responsibility

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

Creator

• Last king of Scotland (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Brock, Jeremy, 1959-
• Bryer, Lisa
• Calderwood, Andrea
• trueAnderson, Gillian, 1968-
• trueFoden, Giles, 1967-
• UK Film Council
• Heffes, Alex
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Ltd
• Macdonald, Kevin, 1967-
• McAvoy, James, 1979-
• Slate Films
• McBurney, Simon
• Scottish Screen (Organization)
• Fox Searchlight Pictures
• Morgan, Peter, 1963-
• Steel, Charles
• FilmFour (Firm)
• Washington, Kerry, 1977-
• DNA Films
• Cowboy Films
• Whitaker, Forest

Actor

• McBurney, Simon
• McAvoy, James, 1979-
• trueAnderson, Gillian, 1968-
• Washington, Kerry, 1977-
• Whitaker, Forest

Screenwriter

• Brock, Jeremy, 1959-
• Morgan, Peter, 1963-

Composer

• Heffes, Alex

Director

• Macdonald, Kevin, 1967-

Producer

• Calderwood, Andrea
• Steel, Charles
• Bryer, Lisa

Subject

• Thriller -- Feature
• Biographical -- Feature
• Biographical films
• trueBiographical films
• Despotism -- Uganda -- Drama
• Dictators -- Uganda -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Foreign films -- England
• Genocide -- Uganda -- Drama
• Historical -- Feature
• Historical films
• Historical films
• Motion pictures, British
• Physician and patient -- Uganda -- Drama
• Suspense films
• Uganda -- Drama
• Uganda -- History -- Drama
• Uganda -- Politics and government -- 1971-1979 -- Drama
• Uganda -- Politics and government -- Drama
• Amin, Idi, 1925-2003 -- Drama

Genre

• trueDrama
• Biographical
• Biographical films
• Feature films
• Foreign films
• Historical
• Historical films
• Motion pictures, British
• Suspense films
• Thriller

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng

Summary

Idi 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 and becomes Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became the scene of Amin's genocidal tyranny. Amin is both seductive and horribly destructive; Garrigan grows increasingly prone to exploitation

Awards note

Golden Globes (USA), 2007: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama (Forest Whitaker); Academy Awards (USA), 2007: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Forest Whitaker).

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

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

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for some strong violence and gruesome images, sexual content and language

Language note

Closed-captioned; dialogue in English (5.1 Dolby Surround) or Spanish (Dolby Surround) with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish

LC call number

PN1995.9.S87

LC item number

L378 2007

PerformerNote

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

Runtime

123

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action