The last king of Scotland

Resource Information

The work The last king of Scotland represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Barrington Area Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The last king of Scotland

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

Contributor

• Anderson, Gillian, 1968-
• Brock, Jeremy, 1959-
• Bryer, Lisa
• Calderwood, Andrea
• Macdonald, Kevin, 1967-
• McAvoy, James, 1979-
• McBurney, Simon
• Morgan, Peter, 1963-
• Steel, Charles
• Washington, Kerry, 1977-
• Whitaker, Forest

Subject

• Amin, Idi, 1925-2003 -- Drama
• Biographical films
• Despotism -- Uganda -- Drama
• Dictators -- Uganda -- Drama
• Feature films
• Genocide -- Uganda -- Drama
• Historical films
• Physician and patient -- Uganda -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Uganda -- Drama
• Uganda -- Politics and government -- 1971-1979 -- Drama

Genre

• Biographical films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Historical films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng

Summary

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, but as he grows increasingly monstrous, Garrigan becomes disillusioned. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda, a British colony until 1962, became a breeding ground for Amin's genocidal tyranny

Awards note

• Academy Awards, 2007: Oscar for Best performance by an actor in a leading role (Forest Whitaker)
• Golden Globes, 2007: Best performance by an actor in a motion pictures - Drama (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

Intended audience

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

Language note

• Dialogue in English or Spanish with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish
• Closed-captioned

PerformerNote

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

Runtime

123

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action