Forest Whitaker's mesmerizing performance as Idi Amin drives Kevin Macdonald's adaptation of Giles Foden's 1998 novel about the dictator's reign of terror, which left Uganda's once-thriving economy in ruins and at least 300,000 of his countrymen dead. 1971: Bored beyond reason with life in prim, gray, stiflingly Protestant Scotland, newly minted doctor Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) flees to Africa, apparently for no more considered reasons than that it represents everything his dour, chilly homeland isn't. Nicholas intends to work in the rural Ugandan clinic run by idealistic Dr. Merrit (Adam Kotz) and his practical wife, Sara (Gillian Anderson), arriving in the j...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
123 mins