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Director: |
Tommy Lee Jones |
Writer: |
Guillermo Arriaga |
Starring: |
Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cesar Cedillo, January Jones, Dwight Yoakam |
Released: |
May 25, 2006 |
Rating: |
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Runtime: |
121 minutes
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Story: |
A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of West Texas. The body is found
and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman
kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in
tow and the body tied to a mule Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.
Guillermo Arriaga's dramatic and poetic script weaves past and present as it gradually
reveals a great friendship, the lonely subterfuge of an illegal migrant's life, the
cost of a promise made and kept, and culminates in the redemption of a callous if
accidental killer.
The U.S.-Mexico border has long been plagued with violence and racism, and many of
the events that unfold in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada are accurate
depictions of the ongoing abuse of human rights in the region. But the film offers,
in its conclusion, a pure form of contrition for wrongs committed, and a striking note
of empathy for the lives so changed.
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Cast: |
Tommy Lee Jones
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Pete Perkins |
Barry Pepper
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Mike Norton |
Julio Cesar Cedillo
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Melquiades Estrada |
Dwight Yoakam
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Belmont |
January Jones
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Lou Ann Norton |
Melissa Leo
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Rachel |
Levon Helm
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Old Man with Radio |
Mel Rodriguez
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Captain Gomez |
Cecilia Suarez
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Rosa |
Ignacio Guadalupe
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Lucio |
Vanessa Bauche
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Mariana |
Irineo Alvarez
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Manuel |
Guillermo Arriaga
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Juan |
Josh Berry
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Border Patrolman |
Rodger Boyce
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Salesman |
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