The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
About The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
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.
Tommy Lee Jones's The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a 2005 crime mystery film. The film is filed under texas, desert, mexico, and corpse.
Tommy Lee Jones stars as Pete Perkins, Barry Pepper as Mike Norton, Dwight Yoakam as Sheriff Frank Belmont, and January Jones as Lou Ann Norton. At 121 minutes long, it arrived in November 2005.
The screenplay is by Guillermo Arriaga. It streams on fuboTV and Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel in the United States.
No Country for Old Men, Sicario, and The Forever Purge make useful companions to The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, all filed under neo-western. TMDB voters put it at 7.0 out of 10 across 680 votes and it carries a R rating.