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BURKE AND HARE

By John LANDIS

METRO INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT - as SALES All rights, World

Black comedy - Completed 2010

Hapless entrepreneurs William Burke and William Hare develop a lucrative venture in 19th century Edinburgh. What starts as an opportunistic 'small-business enterprise' soon expands to grave-robbing and 'ethical' murder to meet the insatiable demand of the leading surgeons of the day.

- Year of production
- 2010
- Genres
- Black comedy
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 88 mn
- Director(s)
- John LANDIS
- Writer(s)
- Piers ASHWORTH, Nick MOORCROFT
- Cast
- Simon PEGG, Andy SERKIS, Isla FISHER, Tom WILKINSON
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-C626-0000-A-0000-0000-7
- EIDR
- 10.5240/8D6C-2A8F-6961-2444-83BB-Z
- Producer(s)
- Barnaby THOMPSON
- Synopsis
- Hapless entrepreneurs William Burke and William Hare develop a lucrative venture in 19th century Edinburgh. What starts as an opportunistic 'small-business enterprise' soon expands to grave-robbing and 'ethical' murder to meet the insatiable demand of the leading surgeons of the day.