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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
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Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones View AllCrew
Guillermo Arriaga (Screenplay), Tommy Lee Jones (Director) View All
Release: Nov. 17th, 2005
Runtime: 2 hours, 1 minute
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005, Tommy Lee Jones)
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The film is told in four parts, the first two chapters, which are the "first two burials" set up for the rest of the film.

When Melquiades's body is accidentally found one week later, his best friend, the ranch foreman Pete Perkins, claims the body to fulfill his promise and bury Melquiades in his hometown Jimenez and presses the local sheriff Belmont to find the killer.

The narrative takes us back and forth in time to see who Melquiades was, the fast and deep friendship he and Pete struck up, the border patrolman Mike Norton (Barry Pepper) and his wife (January Jones) new to the community, and the fateful intersection that led to the shooting.