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The Last King of Scotland
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Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Simon McBurney, Gillian Anderson View AllCrew
Peter Morgan (Screenplay), Kevin Macdonald (Director), Jeremy Brock (Screenplay) View AllRelease: Sep. 1st, 2006
Runtime: 2 hours, 1 minute
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Last King of Scotland
Hi all,
I just saw the film "the last king of scotland" and im trying to find out what idi amin (forest whitaker) was saying when speaking the swahili language in some scenes of the film.
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The Last King of Scotland
What a haunting motion picture
The Last King of Scotland is the story of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (Forrest Whittaker) and his person physician Dr. Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy). This film comp...
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Post-Disaster Drama Set In Scotland
It's set in a couple of holiday cottages in rural Scotland, just outside a small village. There's two young couples staying in one cottage and a lone middle-aged guy in the other.
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Takoma11
Garrigan repeatedly comes across as a self-serving weasel (running a man over with his car to help Amin escape an attack, tattling on another member of Amin's cabinet, etc), but at the same time it's very, very easy to imagine someone acting in the same way.
Garrigan repeatedly comes across as a self-serving weasel (running a man over with his car to help Amin escape an attack, tattling on another member of Amin's cabinet, etc), but at the same time it's very, very easy to imagine someone acting in the same way.
mrtylerdurden
McAvoy actually plays the lead character in this movie (Nicholas Garrigan) and his character is a fictional one, put into the film to help move the story along.
McAvoy actually plays the lead character in this movie (Nicholas Garrigan) and his character is a fictional one, put into the film to help move the story along.
Holden Pike
But the story isn't attempting to document history in broad strokes or in snapshots, it's aiming at a portrait of Amin. In that regard it is a success, largely due to a magnificent performance by Forest Whitaker..
But the story isn't attempting to document history in broad strokes or in snapshots, it's aiming at a portrait of Amin. In that regard it is a success, largely due to a magnificent performance by Forest Whitaker..