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  1. 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.

  2. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada: Directed by Tommy Lee Jones. With Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam. Ranch foreman Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.

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    • Adventure, Crime, Drama
    • Tommy Lee Jones
    • 2006-02-24
  3. Feb 2, 2006 · The main line of the movie forms as Pete Perkins kidnaps Mike Norton, handcuffs him and explains to him that Melquiades Estrada, the dead Mexican, was his friend. Melquiades often talked about his village in Mexico, Pete says, and about his wife and family.

  4. 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.

  5. Feb 3, 2006 · While the story of Norton’s ineptitude proceeds, another unfolds at the Cibolo County Hospital where Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones) is called in to identify the body of his ranch hand, Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cesar Cedillo). Among other odd details, the coroner reports Estrada was shot from several hundred yards.

  6. Feb 24, 2006 · Guillermo Arriaga. 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.

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  8. 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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