Appena terminati gli studi, il dottor
Nicholas Garrigan parte per l'
Uganda a lavorare in una missione.
Pur non sapendo nulla delle travagliate vicende politiche del paese, il casuale incontro con il generale
Idi Amin - da poco salito al potere - cambierà la sua vita: da suo medico personale diventerà presto il suo più stretto consigliere.
Un viaggio nella follia del dittatore
Amin, pazzo paranoico eppure dotato di carisma e di un fascino magnetico. Quello che poteva sembrare una speranza per il suo popolo, si rivelò in fretta l'ennesimo sanguinario dittatore dedito più a massacrare i suoi oppositori che a migliorare la disastrata situazione del suo Paese.
C'è da auspicare che la storia sia sufficientemente romanzata, perché se così non fosse il buon dottore concorrerebbe di diritto al titolo di
uomo più stupido del pianeta, avendo per giunta dato il suo contributo alla catastrofe, avendo le mani sporche di (molto) sangue e non avendo neppure pagato a sufficienza per le sue azioni.
Regia e sceneggiatura crude quanto basta per rendere l'idea di un paese (e di un dittatore) allo sbando, il film appassiona anche grazie alla buona interpretazione di
James McAvoy e, soprattutto, al superbo
Forest Whitaker che si è strameritato l'Oscar.
Cose imparate: decidendo dove andare puntando a caso il dito sul mappamondo, se al primo colpo esce
Canada, ritentare è da idioti. Specie se al secondo giro esce
Uganda...
Voto: 8.
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Whitaker, Forest
Nome di battesimo: Whitaker, Forest Steven
Data di nascita: 15 July 1961
Altezza: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
Coniuge: Keisha Whitaker::(4 May 1996 - present) 2 children
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Forest Whitaker has packaged a king-size talent into his hulking 6' 2", 220 lb frame. The athletically-inclined Whitaker initially found his way into college via a football scholarship. Later, however, he transferred to USC where he set his concentration on music and earned two more scholarships training as an operatic tenor. This, in turn, led to another scholarship at Berkeley with a renewed focus on acting and the performing stage.Whitaker made his film debut at the age of 21 in the raucous comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) wherein he played, quite naturally, a footballer. He went on to play another student pigskin player in his second film Vision Quest (1985). He gain experience on TV as well with featured spots on such varied shows as "Diff'rent Strokes" (1978) and "Cagney & Lacey" (1982), not to mention the TV-movie Civil War epic "North and South" (1985) (mini) and its sequel, the movie that truly put him on the map The Color of Money (1986). His one big scene as a naive-looking pool player who out-hustles Paul Newman's Fast Eddie Felson was pure electricity. This led to more visible roles in the "A" class films Platoon (1986), Stakeout (1987), and Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), which culminated in his breakout lead portrayal of the tortured jazz icon 'Charlie "Bird' Parker' in Clint Eastwood's passion project Bird (1988), for which Whitaker won the Cannes Film Festival award for "best actor" and a Golden Globe nomination.While his "gentle giant" characters typically display innocence, indecision, and timidity along with a strong underlying humanity, he has certainly not shied away from the edgier, darker corners of life as his various hitmen and other menacing streetwise types can attest. Although in only the first section of the film, he was memorable as the IRA-captured British soldier whose bizarre relationship with a mysterious femme fatale serves as the catalyst for the critically-lauded drama The Crying Game (1992). Always a willing participant to push the envelope, he's gone on to enhance a number of lesser films. Among those was his plastic surgeon in Johnny Handsome (1989), gay clothing designer in Robert Altman's Prêt-à-Porter (1994), alien hunter in Species (1995), absentee father confronted by his estranged son in Smoke (1995), and Mafia hitman who models himself after the samurai warrior in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), among many others. As would be expected, he's also had his share of epic-sized bombs, notoriously the L. Ron Hubbard sci-fi disaster Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000). On the TV front, he was the consulting producer and host of a revamped Rod Serling's cult series classic "The Twilight Zone" (2002), which lasted a disappointing one season.In the early 1990s, Whitaker widened his horizons to include producing/directing and has since developed respect name behind the camera. He started things off co-producing the violent gangster film A Rage in Harlem (1991), in which he co-starred with Gregory Hines and Robin Givens, and then made his successful directorial debut with the soulful Waiting to Exhale (1995), showcasing a legion of distaff black stars. He also directed co-star Whitney Houston's music video of the movie's theme song ("Shoop Shoop"). Most recently, he scored with audiences helming the fluffy romantic comedy First Daughter (2004) with Katie Holmes and Michael Keaton.He is married to actress Keisha Whitaker and has two children with her, in addition to another child from a previous relationship. His younger brothers Kenn Whitaker and Damon Whitaker are both actors as well. Whitaker's multimedia company, Spirit Dance Entertainment, includes film, television and music production. Whitaker works closely with a number of charitable organizations. He has also given back to his community, serving as an Honorary Board Member for Penny Lane, an organization that provides assistance to abused teenagers, while committing himself to both 4-D All-Stars, a motivational mentor program for teenagers, and The Watts Cinema Project.
Trivia random: Met his wife actress Keisha Whitaker, nee Nash, on the set of Blown Away (1994).
Citazione random: (On his role in The Last King of Scotland (2006)) "I did a massive amount to prepare for this. First of all I started learning Swahili, learning the accent, then I had to do study all the recording as well as all the books, tapes, documentaries. When I went to Uganda I met with his brother, sister, his ministers, his generals and even to the Ugandan king. I did more research for this role than any other character I've probably ever played."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
McAvoy, James
Nome di battesimo: McAvoy, James Andrew
Data di nascita: 21 April 1979
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Coniuge: Anne-Marie Duff::(18 October 2006 - present)
Ultimi lavori: Trivia random: Grew up in Glasgow. Moved to London at 20.
Citazione random: "I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb. 
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