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Tim Matheson, William Atherton, Hoyt Axton, Jay Gerber, Wayne Grace ... see more see more... , Donald Hotton , Michael Keep , Jennifer Jason Leigh , Brian Libby , Jan Merlin , Dale Swann , Peg Shirley , David Youse

Produced for cable TV, this pedestrian thriller (also known as Till Death Do Us Part) purports to be a riff on Edgar Allen Poe's "The Premature Burial" but actually bears more of a resemblance to Diab... read more read more...olique. It stars Tim Matheson as a cheated-upon husband who can't stay down after his wife's (Jennifer Jason Leigh) unsuccessful attempt to poison him results in his being buried alive. The film's one real moment of horror comes in a claustrophobic sequence where Matheson desperately claws his way out of his coffin. The story then settles into a standard revenge motif, capped with an admittedly potent payoff that, though intriguing, is probably not as shocking as the filmmakers had intended. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 33 min.

Directed by: Frank Darabont

Release Date: May 9, 1990

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DVD Release Date: March 28, 1991

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  • deano
    March 19, 2007
    deano
    Bit shocking to see a man returned from dead and buried alive in a cheap wooden box. I really liked Jennifer Jason Leigh's character having an affair with a doctor who plot to kill her husband in this film!
  • jim222001us
    August 6, 2009
    jim222001us
    Tim Matheson stars as a working man who's wife (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is cheating on with a doctor (William Atherton). They plan on killing him and they think they succeeded when they heavily drug him. But it wears off when he's underground and buried. He digs himself out and is ... read moresoon plotting revenge. The movie is better than you'd expect and the performances are perfect. It offers plenty of suspense and it's funny in a dark sort of way.
  • doloresowen
    February 3, 2008
    doloresowen
    The story of a bored, cheating housewife who's lover manipulates her into killing her husband, but the wife spills the poison and it ends up not being enough to kill him. Watch what happens when he wakes up!
  • jasonluvscubs
    September 23, 2007
    jasonluvscubs
    I remember watching this movie when it came out... it was spooky... not spooky any more, but still a good flick.
  • xymagboy1980
    April 28, 2007
    xymagboy1980
    Surprise this was actually a good movie its laid out very well with the right pace not to slow with to much thrown at you and not so fast that you miss anything.... its on usa every month almost and i look forward to it when its on
  • nzcru
    March 25, 2007
    nzcru
    I thought this a pretty good movie. Tim Matheson returns from the "dead" w/some imaginative ideas in order to inact his vengeance.

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