
Buried Alive(1990)
A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.


Duplicity reigns supreme as a doctor in a messy, emotional divorce from his wife, who is also his partner in a medical clinic, is suddenly slapped with a $7 million malpractice suit by a patient who claims he performed an unnecessary hysterectomy on her.

Joe Penny
Dr. Ed Betters

Lisa Hartman
Laura Parks

Jason Beghe
John Kopiak

Kathleen Quinlan
Ginnie

Dori Brenner
Amy Roberts

Googy Gress
Oscar

Aaron Lustig
Anesthesiologist

Ron Perkins
Harold Block

Ray Reinhardt
Dr. Mark Wolf
Peter Zapp
Roger Hernandez
The Operation is a thriller, crime, tv movie film released in 1990. Directed by Thomas J. Wright, it stars Joe Penny, Lisa Hartman, Jason Beghe. Duplicity reigns supreme as a doctor in a messy, emotional divorce from his wife, who is also his partner in a medical clinic, is suddenly slapped with a $7 million malpractice suit by a patient who claims he performed an unnecessary hysterectomy on her.
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