
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
Adventure
Crime
Drama
Mystery
Western
7.0 (599 votes)
2h 1m
Overview
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.
Details
- Director
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Writer
- Guillermo Arriaga
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $15,000,000
Cast
Barry Pepper
Cecilia Suárez
Dwight Yoakam
Ignacio Guadalupe
January Jones
Julio Cesar Cedillo
Levon Helm
Mel Rodriguez
Melissa Leo
Tommy Lee Jones
Keywords
border patrol
corpse
coyote
desert
illegal immigration
mexico
neo-western
promise
texas
usa–mexico border
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