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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.
2005 · Directed by Tommy Lee Jones · 121 min · Adventure · Crime · Drama · Mystery · Western · 9 frames
Tagline
Nobody is beyond redemption.
Crew
- Written by: Guillermo Arriaga
- Cinematography: Chris Menges
- Edited by: Roberto Silvi
- Music: Marco Beltrami
- Production design: Merideth Boswell
- Produced by: Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Fitzgerald, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Luc Besson
Cast
- Tommy Lee Jones as Pete Perkins
- Barry Pepper as Mike Norton
- Dwight Yoakam as Sheriff Frank Belmont
- January Jones as Lou Ann Norton
- Melissa Leo as Rachel
- Julio Cesar Cedillo as Melquiades Estrada
- Levon Helm as Old Man with Radio
- Mel Rodriguez as Captain Gomez
- Cecilia Suárez as Rosa
- Ignacio Guadalupe as Lucio
Production
- Country: United States of America, France, Mexico
- Language: English, Spanish
- Studios: EuropaCorp, The Javelina Film Company
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Box office: $12,036,149
- Themes: mexico, texas, illegal immigration, border patrol, usa–mexico border, promise, corpse, desert, neo-western, coyote
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