Burke and Hare

Burke and Hare
Director
John Landis
Country
United kingdom
Year
2010
Genre
Comedy, Crime
Scriptwriters
Piers Ashworth
Nick Moorcroft
Cast
Simon Pegg
Andy Serkis
Isla Fisher
Tom Wilkinson
Tim Curry
Production
Ealing Studios

Storyline

William Burke (Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead) and William Hare (Andy Serkis, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Lord of the Rings trilogy) luck into some easy money when they discover they can sell a fresh cadaver to Dr. Knox (Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton, The Ghost Writer) at Edinburgh Medical College for dissection.  After somehow producing another corpse to sell, Burke and Hare suddenly find themselves in a lucrative if unsavory business.  However, the next cadaver is not quite so easy to obtain, and when word gets out of how profitable the trade is, the duo find themselves blackmailed and in dire need of more bodies.  Murder is not a laughing matter, but then again, this is the 1820's.  Co-starring Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers) and directed by John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, Animal House), who returns to feature films after more than a decade to helm this dark, grisly comedy, based on an entirely true story.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Sitges Film Festival 2011
Official Fantàstic Panorama

Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Year 2010
Call number 03/2010

Italy

Distribution:

Entertainment Film Distributors (United kingdom)
IFC Films ()
Archibald Enterprise (Italy)