Overview
Plot
After a Texas border officer wrongfully kills his friend Melquiades Estrada, ranch hand Pete Perkins kidnaps the officer and exhumes the body to fulfill a promise to bury him in his Mexican hometown.
- Directors
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Cast
- Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones, Melissa Leo, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Levon Helm, Mel Rodriguez, Cecilia Suárez, Ignacio Guadalupe, Vanessa Bauche, Irineo Alvarez, Guillermo Arriaga, Josh Berry, Rodger Boyce, Sonny Carl Davis, Richard Andrew Jones, Sean Hennigan, Terry Dale Parks, Brent Smiga
- Country
- United States of America, France, Mexico
- Genre
- Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Western
- Release date
- 2005-11-17
- Studios
- EuropaCorp, The Javelina Film Company
Plot
Warning: spoilers
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Plot and Cast
Pete Perkins, a ranch hand, is bound by a promise to bury his friend Melquiades Estrada in his Mexican hometown. When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries Estrada, Pete takes drastic action: he kidnaps Norton and exhumes the corpse, setting out on horseback for Mexico with an odd caravan.
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