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The Last King of Scotland is a film based on Giles Foden's award-winning debut novel of the same name (The Last King of Scotland) and adapted by Peter Morgan (The Deal) and Jeremy Brock (Mrs. Brown
). It will be directed by Oscar-winning documentary director Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September
, Touching the Void
) and is scheduled to be released in 2006.

The film features Forest Whitaker as the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, James McAvoy as Nicholas Garrigan and Gillian Anderson as an Israeli physician Sara Zach.

Plot

In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.

Main cast

Gillian Anderson
as Sara Zach
James McAvoy
as Nicholas Garrigan
David Oyelowo
as Djonjo
Kerry Washington
Forest Whitaker
as Idi Amin

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