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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• Director/Actor Jones gave each cast member a copy of Albert Camus' "The Stranger" to read so that they would understand alienation, a big theme in both the novel and the film.
  
  
• Cameo: ['Guillermo Arriaga'] a helpful Mexican vaquero
  
  
• Tommy Lee Jones's theatrical directing debut. His only other directing credit was the TV movie The Good Old Boys (1995) (TV).
  
  
• Much of the movie was shot on Tommy Lee Jones's own ranch.
  
  
• Barry Pepper's character Mike Norton reads the April 2004 issue of Hustler repeatedly when he's out on patrol.
  
  
• The producers tried to sway Tommy Lee Jones from using Mexican pastel colors for the title cards, but he told them he wouldn't budge on his decision.
  
  
• The screenplay was written in Spanish by Guillermo Arriaga but was translated in to English by Tommy Lee Jones.
  
  

• SPOILER: In "Lonesome Dove" (1989) Tommy Lee Jones also goes on a long horseback journey taking his dead friend home to bury him.
  
  

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