The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Adventure, Crime, Drama, Western

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

Director	Tommy Lee Jones
Producer	Luc Besson; Michael Fitzgerald; Tommy Lee Jones
Writer	Guillermo Arriaga

A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and
reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border
Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to
a mule, Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.