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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.
Sep 24, 2012 · Tommy Lee Jones’ The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada begins as a story of honour between close friends and quickly devolves into multiple perspectives of an archetypal quest for masculine redemption and second chances. For Pete Perkins, the rancher and Melquiades’ best friend, Belmont, the local sheriff, and Norton, the….
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.
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.
Feb 3, 2006 · He and Estrada were buddies and when the sheriff shows Pete a photo that was found in the dead man's pocket, he tears up. (Soundbite of film THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA)
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Mar 30, 2006 · Tommy Lee Jones. The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada. Interviewed by Stephen Applebaum. The past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously. Tommy Lee Jones has battled aliens...
