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  • 2011
  • R
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 31 m

Summary Burke & Hare is adark comedy/thriller staring Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson, Tim Curry and Isla Fisher as the unfortunate denizens of 19th century Edinburgh, a setting rife with murder, theft, prostitution, corpse snatching, experimental medicine, and of course Shakespeare. (IFC Films)

Directed By: John Landis

Written By: Piers Ashworth, Nick Moorcroft

  • 2011
  • R
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 31 m

Burke and Hare

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
46
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 22 User Ratings
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Summary Burke & Hare is adark comedy/thriller staring Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson, Tim Curry and Isla Fisher as the unfortunate denizens of 19th century Edinburgh, a setting rife with murder, theft, prostitution, corpse snatching, experimental medicine, and of course Shakespeare. (IFC Films)

Directed By: John Landis

Written By: Piers Ashworth, Nick Moorcroft

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
46
20% Positive
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
5 Reviews
30% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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20% Positive
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75
Sep 7, 2011
The new Burke & Hare offers many pleasures, chief among them the return of the Landis of old.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 9, 2011
All of the actors are enjoying themselves, and the movie is stuffed with history, atmosphere and vivid characters. What's in short supply, though, is laughter.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 22 User Ratings
5.4
27% Positive
6 Ratings
55% Mixed
12 Ratings
18% Negative
4 Ratings

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27% Positive
6 Ratings
55% Mixed
12 Ratings
18% Negative
4 Ratings

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50
Aug 29, 2011
The film struggles to match the original Ealing's quality benchmark, and its unapologetically old-fashioned sensibility may have trouble connecting with contempo audiences.
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40
Sep 6, 2011
The film doesn't come within spitting distance of vintage Landis, e.g., "Animal House" or "An American Werewolf in London." But at least it's not "The Stupids."
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 29, 2011
A so-called black comedy that is more sort of dull, spotty and yucky.
By Ray Bennett FULL REVIEW
38
Sep 4, 2011
Broadness this indolent hardly even stirs one to antipathy.
By Joseph Jon Lanthier FULL REVIEW
30
Sep 6, 2011
By swinging between broad laughs and cheap pathos - Pegg's specialties as an actor, apparently - while avoiding the more fertile ground between, Landis renders his Burke and Hare sociopolitically toothless and bizarrely insensitive.
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Production Company Ealing Studios, Fragile Films, Aegis Film Fund, Hindsight Media, Quickfire Films
Release Date Sep 9, 2011
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline No Job Too Small. No Body Too Big. No Questions Asked.
Website http://www.facebook.com/BurkeandHareMovie
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Awards

Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards
• 1 Nomination

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