Burke and Hare

Burke and Hare

2010 · 1 hr 31 min · R

Comedy, Crime, History

Directors

John Landis

Actors

  • Bill Bailey
  • Tom Wilkinson
  • Michael Smiley

Credits: 2

Summary

A black comedy about two 19th-century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.

More about this movie

Based on the true story of the famous murderers, this movie follows the hapless exploits of William Burke (Simon Pegg) and William Hare (Andy Serkis) as they fall into the highly-profitable business of providing cadavers for the medical fraternity in 19th-century Edinburgh, Scotland, then the center of medical learning. The one thing they were short of was bodies.

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