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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Date de Sortie: vendredi 24 février 2006
Genre: Drame

Réalisateur: Tommy Lee Jones
Producteur: Luc Besson, Michael Fitzgerald, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Tommy Lee Jones
Scénario: Guillermo Arriaga
Studio: Mongrel Media
Durée: 121 min.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada <Status>

Résumé:

Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones), a ranch foreman, employs and eventually befriends a Mexican vaquero named Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cesar Cedillo). Their close camaraderie ends when Mike Norton (Barry Pepper), a psychotic Border Patrolman, shoots and kills Mequiades while in the field. After hastily burying his victim in the high desert of West Texas, Norton and his superiors cover up the crime.

Mequiades is reburied in a public cemetery, but Perkins forces Norton at gunpoint to exhume the body so Mequiades can be buried in Mexico, as per his wishes. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.