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Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada (DVD, 2006)

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Pete Perkins discovers that his best friend has been murdered by a border patrolman and seeks justice by kidnapping said patrolman and forcing him to exhume his friendÆs body, before travelling to Mexico to re-bury him.

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ProducerChris Menges, Michael Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones

EAN5022153186184

eBay Product ID (ePID)53295168

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleThree Burials of Melquiades Estrada

ActorVanessa Bauche, Levon Helm, Julio Cedillo, Barry Pepper, January Jones, Tommy Lee Jones, Dwight Yoakam

DirectorTommy Lee Jones

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

Release Year2006

FeaturesWidescreen

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic

Run Time116 Mins

GenreWesterns

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ReviewsThe Independent - Brilliantly cutting-edge Peckinpah-style Western, Daily Mirror - Brilliant... A stone cold classic, Marie Claire - A moving take to rival BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, Total Film - Sublime... The finest western since Unforgiven, Time Out - Brilliant, Empire - Unforgettable, Hotdog - Powerful

Consumer AdviceContains strong language and grisly images

Additional InformationTommy Lee Jones takes his second turn in the director's chair with THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA, the follow-up to his 1995 western THE GOOD OLD BOYS. The action takes place on the border between West Texas and Northern Chihuahua in Mexico, which is a hot spot for illegal crossings. But Jones' movie ingeniously flips this dangerous yet all-too-common practice on its head, with a tale of a man hell-bent on crossing the border in the opposite direction. The journey to Mexico begins when Pete Perkins (Jones) uncovers the identity of a border patrolman, Mike Norton (Barry Pepper), who has shot and killed his best friend, Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cedillo). Kidnapping Norton and forcing him to dig up Estrada's body, Perkins straps the corpse to a horse, and informs Norton that he will be travelling with them to Mexico. Once there, they will bury Estrada according to instructions he gave Perkins prior to his death. Jones paints Norton as a mean-spirited individual; caught up in a loveless relationship with his wife, Lou Ann (January Jones), Norton's day job frequently involves him either exploding in a violent rage or idly reading a well-thumbed copy of Hustler. The two men don't exactly bond on their journey, the wedge that's been forced between them being far too great for them to reconcile their differences. But Jones coerces a riveting tale from Guillermo Arriaga script, with a choppy chronology reminiscent of Arriaga's own 21 GRAMS. Comparisons to Sam Peckinpah's masterfully bleak 1974 movie BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA are inevitable, although Jones' film has a tender edge that Peckinpah's nihilistic epic was never quite capable of reaching. A film that suggests Jones has a bright future ahead of him as a director, THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA is an absorbing and startling piece of cinema.

Movie/TV TitleThree Burials Of Melquiades Estrada

ComposerMarco Beltrami

Sound source5.1 Surround\Dolby 2.0 Stereo

ScreenwriterGuillermo Arriaga Jordan

Format DescriptionDVD 5