Article: `Buried Alive' shrouds thrills in dark humor

It would be hard to imagine a more horrid fate than being "Buried Alive," the title of a perversely funny USA Network movie presented tonight from 8 to 10 on local cable systems.

This is not a movie for the queasy, nor for those overly phobic about being prematurely entombed. "Buried Alive" nevertheless is a taut, gripping thriller starring Tim Matheson as an honest, decent man who falls (6 feet to be exact) victim to his adulterous wife's treachery.

Matheson is Clint Goodman, who has successfully built a thriving construction business in his small rural town. Everything seems to be going his way, except that his wife, Joanna (Jennifer Jason Leigh), whom he displaced from her preferred ...

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