| Description |
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital video surround rda |
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DVD |
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video file DVD rda |
| Note |
Special features: 7 deleted scenes with commentary by Kevin MacDonald; exclusive documentary Capturing Idi Amin; Forest Whitaker Idi Amin featurette; Fox Movie Changgel presents Casting session The last king of Scotland. |
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Based on the novel by Giles Foden. |
| Credits |
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. |
| Cast |
Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney. |
| Summary |
The new president of Uganda, Idi Amin, immediately takes a liking to a young Scottish doctor working in a rural African hospital and places him in a senior position in the health department, becoming one of his closest advisors. |
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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. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: R; for some strong violence and gruesome images, sexual content and language. |
| System Details |
DVD; region 1; fullscreen presentation. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned; dialogue in English (5.1 Dolby Surround) or Spanish (Dolby Surround) with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish. |
| Awards |
Golden Globes (USA), 2007: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Pictures - Drama (Forest Whitaker) |
| Subject |
Amin, Idi, 1925-2003 -- Drama.
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Dictators -- Uganda -- Drama.
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Physician and patient -- Uganda -- Drama.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Uganda -- Politics and government -- 1971-1979 -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Whitaker, Forest. Actor.
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McAvoy, James, 1979- Actor.
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Washington, Kerry, 1977- Actor.
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Anderson, Gillian, 1968- Actor.
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McBurney, Simon. Actor.
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Bryer, Lisa. Producer.
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Calderwood, Andrea. Producer.
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Steel, Charles. Producer.
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Morgan, Peter, 1963- Screenwriter.
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Brock, Jeremy, 1959- Screenwriter.
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Macdonald, Kevin, 1967- Director.
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Foden, Giles, 1967-
Last king of Scotland.
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Fox Searchlight Pictures.
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DNA Films.
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FilmFour (Firm)
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UK Film Council.
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Scottish Screen (Organization)
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Cowboy Films.
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Slate Films.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Ltd.
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| ISBN |
6311018357 DVD 29.98 |
| Standard No. |
024543407324 |
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00024543407324 |
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