The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Synopsis

"The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (also known as Three Burials) is a 2005 French-American neo-Western film directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It also stars Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, and January Jones. The film was inspired by the real-life killing in Texas of a teenager, Esequiel Hernandez Jr, by United States Marines during a military operation near the United States–Mexico border as well as the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, which contains the same plot premise and challenges encountered in the film." [Wikipedia] The wife of the border patrolman who shoots Melquiades Estrada says that her husband is beyond redemption and returns to Cincinnati.

Genre

Historical

Released

2005

Location

Americas

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