Today’s movie is a
drama with a scene that happens on January 25. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
THE LAST KING OF
SCOTLAND
On January 25, 1971 [03:11 to 07:21] Dr. Garrigan
arrives in Uganda on the day of Idi Amin’s coup to work in a missionary clinic.
Garrigan later meets Amin and becomes his personal physician. Garrigan becomes
an advisor to Amin, but closes his eyes to the brutality of Amin’s regieme.
Garrigan has an affair with one of Amin’s wives, Kay and Amin replaces Garrigans British passport wih a Ugandan
one. Garrigan refuses the price of
British Foreign Office aid to get out of the country – kill Amin. Kay becomes pregnant with Garrigan’s child,
but after he can’t meet her for an abortion, she is arrested and killed. When
Palestinians fly a hijacked Air France plane into Entebbe, Garrigan tries to
kill Amin, but the plot is discovered and he is tortured. A Ugandan collegue
enables Garrigan to escape when the non-Israeli passengers are released, at the
cost of his own life.
The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget by
Andrew Rice (Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2009) at page 89 gives the
date of the coup
Director - Kevin MacDonald
Producers - Charles Steel, Lisa Bryer and Andrea Calderwood
Screenplay - Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock
Awards - The film won the Best Actor Oscar(Whitaker)
Released – September 27, 2006
Runtime – 2 hours 3 minutes
Starring -
Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin
James McAvoy as Nicholas Garrigan
Kerry Washington as Kay Amin
Gillian Anderson as Sarah Merrit
Simon McBurney as Stone
David Oyelowo as Dr. Junju
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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