THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

Idi Amin was the picture of African dictatorship. He ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979, torturing his political opposition, expelling the country’s Asian population and presiding over the slaughter of nearly half a million people.The movie is the story of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who meets Amin while working at a Ugandan clinic.With one rash, decisive act, he impresses the newly elected president and becomes both Amin’s most trusted advisor and his new “white monkey”. Once inside the president’s circle, he is impressed by the lavish pool parties, the gleaming new convertibles, and even the president’s neglected third wife. By the time he glimpses the true depth of Amin’s brutality, Garrigan is in well over his head.