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Original title: Last King of Scotland, The
Release Date
• USA: Sep 29, 2006
Budget USD 6,000,000
BoxOffice: $17.4M
Official Website:
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for some strong violence and gruesome images, sexual content and language.
Running Time
2 hours, 1 minute
Country UK
Production Companies
DNA Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures, FilmFour, Cowboy Films, Scottish Screen, Slate Films, Tatfilm, UK Film Council
Studio Fox Searchlight Pictures
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• The Last King of Scotland (2006)
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Genre: Drama
Tagline: Charming. Magnetic. Murderous.
Plot: It all begins as handsome Scottish physician Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy), fresh out of med school, jets off to Uganda, looking for excitement, romance and the joy of helping a country that truly needs his medical skills. Soon after his arrival, Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, the country’s newly installed leader, has smashed his Maserati into a hapless cow. Boldly taking the chaotic situation under control, Garrigan impresses Amin as brazenly forthright. Already obsessed with Scottish history and culture, Amin takes an instant liking to Garrigan and soon offers him the unlikely job of becoming his personal physician.It’s an offer so incredible, the doctor cannot refuse – and thus is started his odyssey into the inner circle of one of Africa’s most horrific reigns of terror. At first, Garrigan is seduced by Amin’s famously charming personality and ambitious plans for Uganda, not to mention the ruler’s passion for fast cars, beautiful women and glamorous parties. As time goes on, seduced by his own desire for power, Garrigan becomes the dictator’s confidante, consultant and right hand man, witnessing increasingly unsettling events -- kidnappings, assassinations and unspeakable atrocities in which he himself may be complicit. Trapped in the
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| Written by |
Jeremy Brock
Charlotte Gray, Mrs. Brown, Casualty @ Holby City | |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Wimbledon, Inside I'm Dancing | | | | |
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Alex Heffes
Dear Frankie, Touching the Void, One Day in September |
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