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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Release Date: Feb 3, 2006
Running Time: 120 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: France
synopsis
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.
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Pete Perkins
Melquiades Estrada
Mariana
Sheriff Frank Belmont
A. L.
Lou Ann Norton
Mike Norton
Rachel
Kruger
Miller
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reviews
Tommy Lee Jones' stirring and deeply felt Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada proves one thing: Sometimes the most compelling films are the ones closest to the heart. Story Three Burials is languid simplicity at its best. The story starts off as a murder mystery of sorts when a Mexican man, Melquiades Estrada, is found shot dead outside a dusty Texas town, near the U.S./Mexican border. Without any family, he's written off and unceremoniously buried in a shallow grave. This is not at all… 
PETER TRAVERS -
December 1, 2005
Sam Peckinpah lives! The rampaging spirit of the late filmmaker, known as Bloody Sam for films such as The Wild Bunch and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, is all over this blistering modern Western from first-time director Tommy Lee Jones. It took Jones a while -- he's pushing sixty -- to get behind the camera, but he fills every frame of his debut with the ferocity and feeling of his best screen performances. Add his role as Texas ranch foreman Pete Perkins to that gallery. Jones took the…
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