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Burke & Hare is a 2010 British black comedy film, loosely based on the Burke and Hare murders of 1828. Directed by John Landis from an original screenplay by Nick Moorcroft and Piers Ashworth, the film stars Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as William Burke and William Hare respectively.
- Piers Ashworth, Nick Moorcroft
Sep 9, 2011 · Burke and Hare: Directed by John Landis. With Bill Bailey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Smiley, Tim Curry. A black comedy about two 19th-century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.
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- Comedy, Crime, History
- John Landis
- 2011-09-09
Financially strapped 19th century Irishmen discover a lucrative if gruesome trade in digging up fresh corpses for medial experiments in this dark period comedy starring Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis and Isla Fisher. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
- 91 min
Synopsis. The film opens in Edinburgh with a narration by Angus the Hangman ( Bill Bailey ), telling of how the corpses of those hanged by himself are transported to Dr Robert Knox ( Tom Wilkinson) to dissect, while his rival Dr Alexander Monro ( Tim Curry ), who wants Knox's job, is left to amputate body parts of living people.
Sep 9, 2011 · Two 19th-century opportunists (Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis) become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist (Tom Wilkinson).
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- John Landis
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- Simon Pegg
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Oct 29, 2010 · A horror comedy directed by John Landis, Burke and Hare is based on a true story about the U.K.'s earliest serial killers, William Burke ( {PEduXdhgxLtKgm||Simon Pegg}) and William Hare (...
About this movie. arrow_forward. WILLIAM BURKE (Simon Pegg) and WILLIAM HARE (Andy Serkis) are scratching out a living in 1820s Edinburgh. After yet another failed business venture, they...
