Last King of Scotland - At Last!

Addendum: I saw the movie today at Westgate and highly recommend it. Whitaker is great as Idi Amin. The place was packed and I saw Dean Bowles in the audience.


The, as they say, critically acclaimed (and oddly named) Last King of Scotland finally wends its way to Madison starting at Westgate this Friday. It's the fictionalized tale of a Scottish doctor who somehow becomes Idi Amin's personal doctor - more or less against his own wishes, but then Idi Amin was not a dictator to whom one said 'no'.

Forest Whitaker won a Golden Globe this week for best actor in a drama for his portrayal of the Ugandan leader.

I've been waiting for this movie to come around ever since I first heard it reviewed on NPR last September.