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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tommy Lee Jones released in USA on 24 february 2006 with Barry Pepper
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
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Add to a movie listThe Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a 2005 French-American neo-western film directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It also stars Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, and January Jones.
The film was inspired by the real-life killing in Texas of an American teenager, Esequiel Hernandez Jr, by United States Marines during a military operation near the United States–Mexico border as well as the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner which displays the same plot, promise, and challenges encountered in the movie.
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The film has many flashbacks and sometimes the same event is shown twice from different perspectives.Actors
Barry Pepper
(Mike Norton)
Julio César Cedillo
(Melquiades Estrada)
Dwight Yoakam
(Sheriff Frank Belmont)
January Jones
(Lou Ann Norton)
Tommy Lee Jones
(Pete Perkins)
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