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Made with CIA cooperation
Saw this on Showtime (it's a Showtime Original movie). Very well made. Exciting, and apparently fairly accurate, as far as they'll let us know, anyway. This was the first (only?) movie CIA ever cooperated with. (...)Maybe SHO will play it again sometime...

Excellent
Tom Berenger (Kevin Jefferson) plays a retired CIA agent (and current owner of a fine Asian restaurant) who reluctantly returns to the job when Jack Marco, a former colleague (while posing as an engineer in North Korea), is kidnapped by a North Korean government in a blackmail scheme.

Kevin offers to tell Jack's wife about his kidnapping... then with her desperate urging, he agrees to stay involved in the case. In the meantime, Jack is being tortured by the North Korean kidnappers for information.

While Kevin gets the team together of former and new colleagues, to save Jack... we are introduced to some fascinating characters and events along the way. The tiny details that provide the CIA agents' with clues are fascinating; it's amazing someone could even think these up! The steps that are taken to pull the team together, and detailed intelligence and techniques that you watch occur to save Jack Marco, and discover what the North Korean government is actually working to do, makes this movie a must see!

Suspenseful, full of hard decisions, intense action... greed, political indifference, and deceit - along with friendship, loyalty and romance. You'll be proud to be an American!

Romance blossoms throughout the chaos, proving this movie will be enjoyable for men and women! ... Read more

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Matheson keeps this one alive
Sheedy is the victim here and Matheson from the first one talks to her but then in the middle I think around there, Matheson dies in a grave and then Sheedy's husband trys to kill her but then it ends up being him who she kills along with his woman hes seeing on the side. the first is better is all I have to say.

Dont ya hate the cover
makes it look like a horror movie or something. Its a great movie. Woman get buried alive by her husband because he wants out of the marriage but he wouldnt get anything out of it. hes cheating on her. he figures if his wife dies then he gets the money and so he has her buried alive saying to embalm her twice to see that shes dead which obviously doesnt happen because the movie is called "buried alive" and not "embalmed alive". well wifey wakes up and comes back to give her boy what he deserves. great movie. i woulda watched it sooner but the movie was put out to be a horror when actually its not.. its kind of a drama suspense thing. not even much violence really..

Coincidences Lead The Way To Death.
'Buried Alive' is not a movie about zombies. In fact it holds a degree of realism. It's about a woman, who gets poisoned by her husband and buried in the cemetary when she's still alive. Of course, people don't know this. Her husband's motive is to get the money she received as heritage and move away with his mistress. To ensure that she doesn't get out of the graveyard, he asks that his wife is mummified twice. However, things don't work out as they should; and she's put into the coffin without being mummified at all. With a few more coincidences, she will make her way out somehow; and, it will be her revenge when she arrives home and sees her husband with his mistress.

If you're seeking for a movie at nighttime with your friends, and you want it to be a little scary, 'Buried Alive 2' is not a bad choice at all. However, you have to keep in mind that the movie is not very long.

an amazing movie
Don't be fooled by this movie's virtually unknown status. It is amazing. The plot is stunning, and it leaves you with an awesome sense of good & evil. I have not seen the first one, and you definitely don't need to to understand everything that goes on. This movie also strikes me as an allegory of sorts. The wife is an almost Messianic figure, and the final scene pictures hell better than any other movie I have ever scene. The ending will send chills up and down your spine.

Truly a remarkable film.

This was more funny rather than suspensful
This is the sequel to the first. I won't give away too much, but Tim Matheson's character comes back and finds the sheriff passed away and the sheriff's niece(his only surviving relative) who's an old friend of Tim's character.She's in a partly loveless marriage.She wants to make it work and her husband doesn't.Tim warns her if the marriage isn't working to get out of it. She doesn't listen.She get's what Tim got in the first movie and comes back for her revenge.There is more involvement in the goings on of the town and the revenge moves almost exactly like in the first Buried Alive and there are a lot of funny moments with the husband and his mistress.I still like the first one better. ... Read more

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Doris Roberts & James Coco unforgettable as "Cora & Arnie"
Actually, this video tape includes two of the first four episodes from the first season of "St. Elsewhere," the award-winning 1980s television medical drama that looked at the lives of the beleaguered staff and their patients at Boston's St. Eligius Hospital. In "Bypass" (Episode #2, November 9, 1982), Dr. Morrison (David Morse) has to treat a terrorist. "Cora and Arnie" (Episode #4, November 23, 1982), tells the heart rending story of a homeless couple played by Doris Roberts and James Coco. Both actors earned Emmy Awards for their Supporting performances. It is no surprise that Roberts is so good, but the performance by Coco is stunning, although we all should have stopped being surprised years ago that comedians turn in such great tragic performances. Cora and Arnie live together on the streets; he is mildly retarded and if Cora does not have her feet amputated, she will die. However, she refuses to leave Arnie alone. The scene where he is huddled in the corner crying for her will stay with you forever. It has for me.

Final Note: It has always been my belief that because of these performances, which deserved Emmys but were for characters who appeared only once on a show (Emmys are based on performances in a SINGLE episode which is submitted for consideration), the awards of best performances by "guest stars" were created. ... Read more

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Why St. Eligius Hospital is called "St. Elsewhere"
Before there was "E.R." there was "St. Elsewhere," which was originally considered to be "Hill Street Blues" in a hospital. Both shows were filmed in a gritty, realistic style. In the pilot episode we meet the beleaguered doctors of St. Eligius, a teaching ospital in Boston. The drama focuses on idealistic intern Jack Morrison (David Morse), who is fighting to prevent an operation that may kill a beautiful young woman (Dominique Dunne) under his care . Morrison, like Mark Green on "E.R.," became the compassionate young doctor who symbolized the dedication of these television doctors. Meanwhile, Dr. Annie Cavanero (Cynthia Sykes) is running all over the hospital trying to find a missing patient while down in the Emergency Room Dr. Ben Samuels (David Birney) and Dr. Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel) are trying to save the victims of a terrorist bomb attack. Trying to serve as the father figure for all this insanity is Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders), who has to put up with his bombastic heart surgeon, Dr. Mark Craig (William Daniels), who has gotten the hospital new clocks. One of the most critically acclaimed shows of its day, "St. Elsewhere" is now remembered mainly for the fact that young Denzel Washington played Dr. Phillip Chandler. "St. Elsewhere" was created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey, who went on to create other critically acclaimed series including "I'll Fly Away" and "Northern Exposure." ... Read more

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The second episode from the season of "St. Elsewhere"
"Bypass" is the second episode from the first season of "St. Elsewhere," the critically acclaimed series that changed forever the medical shows on television. "E.R." made it to the top of the Nielsen ratings, but "St. Elsewhere" was the show that opened to door to doctors being seen more realistically than what we were used to with "Marcus Welby, M.D." and "Medical Center." I remember driving this home in a television class when we too the multi-episode plot line on "St. Elsewhere" involving the heart transplant and turned it into a "Medical Center" episode during a class discussion. I was sort of hoping that "Bypass" was the unforgettable episode from that run where the heart transplant was performed, but it is not.

Of course there are multiple plot lines going on in "Bypass," but the main one has Dr. Jack Morrison (David Morse) having to treat the bank bomber, Andrew Reinhardt (a young Tim Robbins). Meanwhile Stephen MacAllister (Jack Bannon), the husband of one of the bomber's victims, shows up at St. Eligus to find his wife in a coma. Unfortunately the rather memorable resolution of this particular plotline is not found on this tape (it comes in episode 4, "Cora and Arnie," and if you go for the "Best of" video series you can get both episodes on one tape). The other plot lines find Dr. Mark Craig (William Daniels) badgering a patient into agreeing to surgery in another effort to get publicity for the hospital, Dr. Ben Samuels (David Birney) trying to teach Dr. Beale (G. W. Bailey) to swim, and Laraine Newman of "Saturday Night Live" as a patient called "Tweety."

This episode, co-written by series creators Joshua Brand and John Falsey, originally aired on November 9, 1982. Hard to believe that it has been over two decades since "St. Elsewhere" went on the air and as "'Hill Street Blues' set in a hospital.'" On the basis of the pilot episode and this second effort Dr. Morrison is clearly the focal character (the Anthony Edwards of his generation) but you also have clear evidence of the quirky humor of the series. For those who reduce this series, one of the best television dramas ever, to being the first place where future Oscar winner Denzel Washington made a name for himself, there is the added bonus on another future Oscar winner with Tim Robbins guest-starring in this one. ... Read more

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Nicely Done Movie!!
Peter Coyote stars as an Army commander harrassing a married woman on base when her husband is out of town but not without a fight.It's a nicely done movie!! ... Read more

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Chosen by chance. Hunted for sport.
This is a weak entry in the serial killer genre directed by actor Tim Matheson, with a teleplay by Miguel Tejada-Flores based on a short story "Liar's Dice" by Bill Prozini. At the centre is Ted McGinley, who seems to think sighing is acting, as a family man who is the 13th target of the attentions of Corbin Bernsen. Matheson draws parallels between Bernsen and McGinley, with a satanic stone figure on a bar after Bernsen exits, and a pan from McGinley's lunchtime motel sex with his own wife to the touch of their weddings rings then to a painting of angels. Although Bernsen is livelier than usual his persona is still non-threatening, and McGinley is such a pain that we never empathise with his victimisation. It's like watching a Punch and Judy who never connect. The dice/game metaphor isn't extended, though it may explain the lack of reality of Bernsen's previous behaviour.
Matheson casts himself as a private detective with a buzzcut, a Southern accent, and a stuffed alligator on his desk. It's easy to imagine him playing McGinley's role, at times they even look similar, but his part is as negligible as any other here. He supplies the thriller cliches like a frightened cat, but also a Brian DePalma split screen and hand-pans. There is some suspense created from scorpions placed in a bed, but an unsatisfying resolution to their appearance. Perhaps because of the short story source material, this TVM actually reads like an extended anthology episode, with an underpopulated universe and wooden supporting parts, and the DePalma touch is later echoed in McGinley's nightmare, though Matheson's vision isn't as dark. ... Read more

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BEE NIGN THRILLER
HELL SWARM is a little misleading to say the least. The promo for the film seems to focus on a batch of killer bees, laced with a deadly skin eating virus, that is meant to destroy mankind and let a race of aliens take over the earth. There is one bee attack, but it isn't shown; the plot mainly focuses on trying to stop these aliens from taking over other humans and procreating (a la INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS). Kathryn Morris (now seen on "Cold Case") does a decent job as the female law enforcer, but Tim Matheson as the steely manager and Boyd Kestner as the stalwart hero, don't have the oomph to catapult this classic wannabe.
Trite but mildly entertaining. ... Read more