Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 0043396148253 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 99 Release Date: June 06, 2006 Running Time: 121 minutes Sales Rank: 13408 Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: February 03, 2006
Description: Oscar® winner Tommy Lee Jones (Best Supporting Actor, The Fugitive, 1993) directs and stars in this poetic and striking modern-day Western. Peter Perkins (Jones) is a veteran cowboy who embodies the values of the old west, living in a small Texas town bordering the U.S. and Mexico. He hires Melquiades Estrada as a ranch hand and quickly befriends the man. But when Estrada is gunned down under mysterious circumstances, Perkins takes justice into his own hands and kidnaps a trigger-happy border patrolman (Barry Pepper - Saving Private Ryan), forcing Perkins to unearth Estrada's body and accompany Perkins on horseback on the long and treacherous journey through the frontier mountains and back roads of Mexico to bring his friend's body home.
Amazon.com: One of the most acclaimed films of 2005, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada marks the assured and worldly-wise directorial debut of veteran actor Tommy Lee Jones. While the majority of critics and Oscar®-voters heaped praise upon the 'gay cowboy' breakthrough of Brokeback Mountain, Jones delivered this equally resonant, elegiac study of male friendship in a Western setting, crafting a flawless parable of borderline existence on the border of Texas and Mexico. It is there, amidst some of the most beautifully bleak landscapes in recent American film, that Jones and screenwriter Guillermo Arriga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams) set their existential quest for meaning, focusing on the honor-bound commitment of Texas ranch foreman Pete (played by Jones with a heavy heart and deep moral conviction) to return the body of illegal Mexican immigrant ranch-hand Melquiades Estrada (played in flashback scenes by Julio Cedillo) to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness. Estrada had been accidentally shot by Mike (Barry Pepper), a newly-arrived U.S. border patrolman, and Pete forces Mike to participate in his cross-country ritual of duty--a voyage of revenge and redemption that will change both men forever, and bring some semblance of meaning to the senseless death of Pete's good friend. In triumphant collaboration with cinematographer Chris Menges, Jones carefully instills his superior cast (including Dwight Yoakam, January Jones, and Melissa Leo) with the slow, desperate rhythms of lives on the border (of Texas and Mexico, and life and death), prompting many critics to draw praiseworthy comparisons to Sam Peckinpah's thematically similar 1974 drama Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and the exquisite absurdities of Luis Bunuel. Whatever your own reaction might be, Three Burials is not a film to view or respond to lightly; there's humor and more than a bit of madness to this great, inquisitive film, but Jones is looking deeply into the soul of humankind, and he dares you to draw your own conclusions about the journey Pete and Mike have taken. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - The meaning of human dignity and moral conviction
Tommy Lee Jones gives an amazing performance in this film portraying worn out ranch hand with no family or significant human relationship who befrends illegal Mexican immigrant. They work in town close to Mexico - US border and occasionally have tender moments with local married women. This is a lonely town with lonely people resigned to the lives of quiet despair and infinite boredom. When one day Melquides gets shot by accident by a local US border patrolman, unexpected events start to happen. Other US border patrolmen are trying to cover up murder while the ranchand is looking for a way to bring some dignity to illegal immigrant's burial rites. In what seems almost fantasy adventure, ranchhand kidnaps hothead patrolman who killed Malquides and both start journey to Mexico with intent to deliver Melquiades' body to his family. This journey is full of unexpected twists and turns, has humorous moments in it ... Read More
Rating: - Just my opinion
After reading all the reviews, I ordered this movie and I can not tell you how disappointed I was! There was not one thing I enjoyed about this movie. I thought it was depressing from the beginning and never got any better. The acting was good, but as for the movie, I would give it 0 stars!! Don't waste your money on this one. Buy Man of the House. It is great!
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Rating: - Riding righting wrongs
This is a modern western drama well worth watching for its spirited take on friendship in the face of racism with an ethics lesson focused on atonement and redemption.
A border patrol guard with a penchant for violence accidentally shoots a Mexican working in America near the border but leaves him to die. The Mexican's friend played by Tommy Lee Jones slowly fixes to have the border patrol guard kidnapped and forces him to bring the body across to Mexico for burial. Along the way they come across many characters and situations that slowly aid in delivering the patrol guard from his prejudice.
There is so much depth in character and detail to this story that anyone with a love of movies should watch it. This is a fantastic first director's effort from Jones also and shows that there is still plenty of room for original stories on the silver screen. Its art house appeal is also significant.
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