From John Landis, the director of Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places and Coming To America, a dark comedy/thriller about the unfortunate denizens of 19th century Edinburgh, in a setting rife with murder, theft, prostitution, corpse snatching, experimental medicine.
A comedic take on the true story of the 1828 Edinburgh body-snatchers William Burke (Simon Pegg) and William Hare (Andy Serkis).
These two Irish entrepreneurs, spurred on by a chance meeting with a gorgeous actress (Isla Fisher), discover that a dead body can fetch a hefty price when the demands of the leading medical professors Dr. Knox (Tom Wilkinson) and Dr. Monroe (Tim Curry) reach beyond that of the local supply.
