"Forest Whitaker, uncorking the power that he usually holds in check, gives a chilling, bravura performance as Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin, whose bloody regime slaughtered more than 300,000 people. This intelligent, sometimes gruesome thriller, based on a novel by Giles Foden, pairs this real-life dictator with the fictional Nick Garrigan (James McAvoy), a boyish, idealistic but deluded Scottish doctor who serves Amin as personal physician and close adviser, realizing too late how much blood stains his own hands."(Newsweek) Whitaker took home the Oscar for his perversely charismatic performance. More at foxsearchlight.com/lastkingofscotland
2006, color, 2 hours 1 minute, UK
