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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) 7.5
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Metascore: 77/100
Reviews: 190 user | 166 critic | 35 from Metacritic.com 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 JonesWriter:Guillermo Arriaga |
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Cast
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| Tommy Lee Jones | ... | ||
| Barry Pepper | ... | ||
| Julio Cedillo | ... |
Melquiades Estrada
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| Dwight Yoakam | ... | ||
| January Jones | ... | ||
| Melissa Leo | ... |
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| Levon Helm | ... | ||
| Mel Rodriguez | ... | ||
| Cecilia Suárez | ... |
Rosa
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Ignacio Guadalupe | ... |
Lucio
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| Vanessa Bauche | ... |
Mariana
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Irineo Alvarez | ... |
Manuel
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| Guillermo Arriaga | ... |
Juan
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| Josh Berry | ... |
Border Patrolman
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| Rodger Boyce | ... | ||
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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. Written by Anonymous
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Release Date:
3 February 2006 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Los tres entierros de Melquiades Estrada See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
£82,586 (UK) (31 March 2006)Gross:
$5,023,275 (USA) (2 June 2006)Company Credits
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Rachel: He went on vacation. He said that it wasn't his problem, that it was between you and the Border Patrol, and he wanted to go to Sea World.
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Tommy Lee Jones's theatrical directing debut. His only other directing credit was the TV movie The Good Old Boys. See more »Goofs
Just after Pete describes the Melquiades house at the end of the movie, there seems to be some sort of crew member visible starting in the lower left-hand corner of the screen. See more »Quotes
Pete Perkins: What's Belmont doing?Rachel: He went on vacation. He said that it wasn't his problem, that it was between you and the Border Patrol, and he wanted to go to Sea World.
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is for me the film that saved 2005. Written by Guillermo Arriaga, also writer of "Amores Perros" and "21 grams" and the first movie of Tommy Lee Jones as a director (but also lead actor), "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" tells the story of Ranch hand Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones) who wants to fulfill the promise he made to his recently deceased Mexican friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico. The power of this modern western and initiatic journey resides in the complexity of the characters, their depth and their controversial behavior. None of the protagonists are one dimensional; none of them are right or wrong but all of them do right and wrong things. They are not always rational, and most of the time they feel lost. In one word they all appear profoundly human. Build over a chase dynamic fueled with contrasts and paradoxes, the film opposes Wild West landscape and Modern carton built houses, 4WD tracking hunt and horse back journey, fake TV soaps and true friendship but maybe most of all Freedom and Prison. Indeed most if not all characters are trapped in their apathetic lives from which they can't or don't want to escape forcing us to ask ourselves how close is our lives to the spectacle projected in front of our eyes. Melquiades Estrada embodies this possibility of Escape and now that he has been buried 3 times he transcends this Freedom making redemption possible not only through death but also through rebirth, suggesting that nobody is beyond it.