In this hangman's tale, set back when Edinburgh was the scientific capitol of the world, two out-of-work men will do anything to get a piece of the Enlightenment. Grave robbing can be lucrative if you sell to the right medical school—but Burke and Hare aren't very good at it. Killing people is much easier. The director of Animal House and The Blues Brothers takes a grisly page out of history and turns it into a side-splitting story of love and progress. You won't believe how much of it is true!