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Melquiades Estrada, a Mexican undocumented worker working in Texas as a cowboy, shoots at a coyote which is menacing his small flock of goats. A nearby United States Border Patrol officer, Norton, thinks he is being attacked and shoots back, killing Melquiades.
Jul 21, 2012 · Jones plays the lead role, a rancher named Pete Perkins, whose friend, the titular Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cedillo), is found partially buried in the wilderness in the film’s opening moments.
Since the morgue’s refrigeration system is broken, they move to rebury Estrada’s body quickly at the local cemetery under the assumption that the deceased has no family members to inform. A problem soon arises, however: a photo found among the personal effects shows Estrada with a wife and kids.
- Tommy Lee Jones
Oct 5, 2023 · The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a 2005 neo-western film. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones, the film tells the story of a man named Pete Perkins seeking justice for his friend’s death.
Sep 24, 2012 · Along the way, they encounter an elderly blind man, alone and lonely who shares his scant food with them, another code of the Old West. But the old man tests Pete’s honour by asking Pete to kill him, justifying his request with the offense he would commit to God if he killed himself.
Rancher Pete Perkins (Jones) forces Mike Norton (Pepper) to carry the body of Pete's friend Melquiades Estrada (Cedillo) from their dusty Texas border town to the dead man's home in Mexico for burial in his family cemetery.
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Feb 3, 2006 · This last character, it turns out, is the man who killed Melquiades. Pete finds out before too long, and then his mission begins.
