The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Ranch hand Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.
- Director: Tommy Lee Jones
- Genre: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Western
- Tagline: For justice. For loyalty. For friendship.
- Runtime: 121 minutes
Cast
Tommy Lee Jones : Pete Perkins
Barry Pepper : Mike Norton
Julio Cedillo : Melquiades Estrada (as Julio César Cedillo)
Dwight Yoakam : Belmont
January Jones : Lou Ann Norton
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Melquiades Estrada, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is shot and buried in a shallow grave in the high desert of West Texas (inspired by the real-life shooting of Esequiel Hernandez.[2]). His body is found and reburied in a local cemetery. After kidnapping the killer and forcing him to disinter the body, Pete Perkins, Melquiades’ best friend and employer, undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey on horseback into Mexico, with his captive in tow and Melquiades’ body tied to a mule.
The film has many flashbacks. Sometimes the same event is shown twice, from different perspectives.
Mike Norton (Barry Pepper) and his wife move to the border area of West Texas. He is a naive and gung-ho border patrolman, prone to violent over-reaction. He has rough sex with his wife, without any regard for her pleasure or emotion.
Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cedillo), a Mexican immigrant working as a cowboy, shoots at a coyote which is menacing his small flock of goats. Patrolman Norton thinks he is being attacked and shoots back, killing Melquiades. Norton quickly buries Melquiades and does not report anything.
Melquiades’ body is found and is reburied in a local cemetery by the sheriff’s office. Evidence that he may have been killed by the U.S. Border Patrol is ignored by the local sheriff, Belmont (Dwight Yoakam), who would prefer to avoid trouble with the Border Patrol.
Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones), a rancher and Melquiades’ best friend, finds out that the killer was Norton. Pete kidnaps Norton and forces him to dig up Melquiades’ body.
In order to keep his promise to Melquiades that he would bury him in his home town of Jiménez in Mexico if he died in the U.S., Pete undertakes a journey horseback into Mexico, with his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule. His motive for taking Norton along appears to be revenge as well as to teach him respect and empathy for Mexicans. Read more
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