
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 2010
- Starring
- Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Hynes, Bill Bailey, Hugh Bonneville, Allan Corduner and others
- Writers
- Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft
- Director
- John Landis
- Producers
- Barnaby Thompson and Alexandra Ferguson
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...
- UK certificate
- 15
- Duration
- 91 minutes
- Release date
- Friday 29th October 2010
- Distributor
- Production company
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- Last repeat
- Monday 21st May 2018 at 12:25am on BBC2 Scot
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