Burke & Hare
- 2010 film
Comedy about legendary 19th Century graverobbers Burke and Hare, providing corpses to Edinburgh's medical men. Stars Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Hynes and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 2010
- Stars
- Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Hynes, Bill Bailey, Hugh Bonneville, Allan Corduner and more
- Writers
- Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft
- Director
- John Landis
- Producers
- Barnaby Thompson, Alexandra Derbyshire, Nigel Green, James Spring, Tim Smith, Paul Brett, Peter Nichols, James Atherton and Jan Pace
- Company
It is the early 19th Century and, with a world-renowned reputation as a centre of medical excellence, Edinburgh's educational establishments are running short of corpses to dissect.
Hard-up Irish couple William and Lucky Hare, and fellow countryman and friend William Burke, stumble across a useful source of income when one of their tenants dies suddenly: having failed to dispose of the body by other means, they discover the medical community's need for fresh corpses - and so begins a search for more cadavers.
Initially attempting grave-robbery, after another tenant falls gravely ill the pair soon take matters into their own hands...
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Additional details
- UK certificate
- 15
- Duration
- 91 minutes
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Broadcast details
- Most recent repeats
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- Monday 21st May 2018 at 12:25am on BBC2 Scot
- Sunday 20th May 2018 at 11:50pm on BBC2
- Sunday 2nd July 2017 at 11:35pm on BBC2