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Box office. $13.5 million [5] The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (also known as Three Burials) [6] is a 2005 neo-Western film [3] directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and written by Guillermo Arriaga. [7] It also stars Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, and January Jones . The film was inspired by the real-life killing in ...
Feb 24, 2006 · The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada: Directed by Tommy Lee Jones. With Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam. Ranch foreman Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.
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- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- Tommy Lee Jones
- 2006-02-24
Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review dave s Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada has all of the markings of a film that is good but had all of ...
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- Tommy Lee Jones
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- Tommy Lee Jones
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. — Anonymous. In Texas near the border of Mexico, an arrogant new border patrolman Mike Norton mistakenly kills the Mexican ...
For Justice. For Loyalty. For Friendship. The body of Mexican Melquiades Estrada is found in a shallow grave in the desert, where it was hastily buried after...
- 2 min
- 12.4K
- Madman Films
Feb 2, 2006 · Guillermo Arriaga. "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" tells the kind of story that John Huston or Sam Peckinpah might have wanted to film. It begins with a bedrock of loyalty and honor between men, and mixes it with a little madness. In an era when hundreds of lives are casually destroyed in action movies, here is an entire film in which ...
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The body of Mexican Melquiades Estrada is found in a shallow grave in the desert, where it was hastily buried after being fatally shot by a Border Patrolman, Mike Norton (Barry Pepper). Making no attempt to solve the crime, the local Texan authorities rapidly transfer the corpse to a pauper's grave in the cemetery. Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones), a ranch foreman and Melquiades' best friend, takes it upon himself to hold Norton accountable. After forcing him to dig up the body at gunpoint ...
