The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Nobody is beyond redemption.
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Release Date
11/17/2005Runtime
121 minsOverview
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.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$15,000,000Revenue
$12,036,149Homepage
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A sparse, dust-choked odyssey where honor and rage drive two men across a harsh border landscape with a corpse in tow. The film moves like the desert itself, slowly, implacably, forcing both its characters and viewers to reckon with complicity and consequence.
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Heads up
Tommy Lee Jones
Pete Perkins
Barry Pepper
Mike Norton
Dwight Yoakam
Sheriff Frank Belmont
January Jones
Lou Ann Norton
Melissa Leo
Rachel
Julio Cesar Cedillo
Melquiades Estrada
Levon Helm
Old Man with Radio
Mel Rodriguez
Captain Gomez
Cecilia Suárez
Rosa
Ignacio Guadalupe
Lucio
Vanessa Bauche
Mariana
Irineo Alvarez
Manuel
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