Movie
Burke & Hare
Overview
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
Details
- Release date
- 2010-10-29
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Thriller, History, Horror
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Quickfire Films, Ealing Studios, Fragile Films, Aegis Film Fund, Prescience
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Simon Pegg as William Burke
- Andy Serkis as William Hare
- Isla Fisher as Ginny
- Georgia King as Emma
- Tom Wilkinson as Dr. Knox
- Tim Curry as Dr. Monroe
- Christopher Lee as Old Joseph
- Jessica Hynes as Lucky
- Bill Bailey as Angus
- Stephen Merchant as Footman
- Hugh Bonneville as Lord Harrington
- David Schofield as Fergus
Crew
- John Landis - Director
- Piers Ashworth - Writer
- Nick Moorcroft - Writer
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