The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Short description
After a Mexican ranch worker named Melquiades Estrada is killed by a Texas border officer, his friend Pete Perkins decides to ensure his companion receives a proper burial. Perkins kidnaps the officer responsible for the death and forces him to help exhume the body. The two men then travel by horseback toward Mexico to fulfill a promise to bury Estrada in his hometown.
Directed by Tommy Lee Jones, this 2005 production was his first feature film, followed later by The Sunset Limited and The Homesman. The movie features Tommy Lee Jones in the lead role as Pete Perkins, alongside Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones, Melissa Leo, and Julio Cedillo. The screenplay was written by Guillermo Arriaga, with Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam serving as producers.
The film had a budget of 15 million USD and earned 12 million USD at the worldwide box office. On TMDB, it holds a rating of 7/10 based on 677 votes. This audience score is similar to the rating from film critics, who gave the movie a 7.4/10 based on 149 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- A significant part of the film was shot on a ranch owned by Tommy Lee Jones himself, who served as the producer, director, and lead actor in this project.
- The plot was inspired by the real murder of American student Ezekiel Hernandez during a military operation near the US-Mexico border.
- The screenplay was written in Spanish by Guillermo Arriaga and translated into English by Tommy Lee Jones.
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