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Burke & Hare

Burke & Hare

Comedy · Crime · Romance · 2010

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

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Burke & Hare

“No Job Too Small. No Body Too Big. No Questions Asked.”

2010 Comedy · Crime · Romance 1h 31m

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6.1 / 10

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Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

John Landis

Written by

Piers Ashworth · Nick Moorcroft

Simon Pegg

Simon Pegg

William Burke

Andy Serkis

Andy Serkis

William Hare

Isla Fisher

Isla Fisher

Ginny

Georgia King

Georgia King

Emma

Tom Wilkinson

Tom Wilkinson

Dr. Knox

Tim Curry

Tim Curry

Dr. Monroe

Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

Old Joseph

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Put Burke & Hare on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Big-Idea Head

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.