The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada

Drama, Adventure, Western, Crime

Tommy Lee Jones	Pete Perkins
Barry Pepper	Mike Norton
Julio Cedillo	Melquiades Estrada
Dwight Yoakam	Belmont
January Jones	Lou Ann Norton
Melissa Leo	Rachel
Mel Rodriguez	Captain Gomez
Cecilia Suárez	Rosa
Ignacio Guadalupe	Lucio
Levon Helm	Old Man with Radio
Rodger Boyce
Sonny Carl Davis
Julio Cesar Cedillo
Vanessa Bauche
Cecilia Suarez

Director	Tommy Lee Jones
Producer	Luc Besson; Michael Fitzgerald; Tommy Lee Jones
Writer	Guillermo Arriaga
Cinematography	Chris Menges
Musician	Marco Beltrami

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is about Mexican cowboy Melquiades Estrada (Julio César Cedillo) who comes to Texas to work as a ranch hand. One day Melquiades is out hunting and is shot and murdered by a border patrol agent (Barry Pepper), who buries him in the desert. His body is found a week later and is reburied in the town cemetery. While working for ranch foreman Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones) Melquiades asked him to bring his body back to his hometown of Jimenez, Mexico if he dies. To keep his promise to his friend, Pete kidnaps the border agent and forces him to dig up the body from the town grave and travel through Mexico with the dead body tied to a mule to Jimenez.