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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396148253
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 14825
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: June 06, 2006
Running Time: 121 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: February 03, 2006
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Editorial Review:
One of the most acclaimed films of 2005, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada marks the assured and worldly-wise directorial debut of veteran actor Tommy Lee Jones. While the majority of critics and Oscar®-voters heaped praise upon the "gay cowboy" breakthrough of Brokeback Mountain, Jones delivered this equally resonant, elegiac study of male friendship in a Western setting, crafting a flawless parable of borderline existence on the border of Texas and Mexico. It is there, amidst some of the most beautifully bleak landscapes in recent American film, that Jones and screenwriter Guillermo Arriga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams) set their existential quest for meaning, focusing on the honor-bound commitment of Texas ranch foreman Pete (played by Jones with a heavy heart and deep moral conviction) to return the body of illegal Mexican immigrant ranch-hand Melquiades Estrada (played in flashback scenes by Julio Cedillo) to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness. Estrada had been accidentally shot by Mike (Barry Pepper), a newly-arrived U.S. border patrolman, and Pete forces Mike to participate in his cross-country ritual of duty--a voyage of revenge and redemption that will change both men forever, and bring some semblance of meaning to the senseless death of Pete's good friend. In triumphant collaboration with cinematographer Chris Menges, Jones carefully instills his superior cast (including Dwight Yoakam, January Jones, and Melissa Leo) with the slow, desperate rhythms of lives on the border (of Texas and Mexico, and life and death), prompting many critics to draw praiseworthy comparisons to Sam Peckinpah's thematically similar 1974 drama Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and the exquisite absurdities of Luis Bunuel. Whatever your own reaction might be, Three Burials is not a film to view or respond to lightly; there's humor and more than a bit of madness to this great, inquisitive film, but Jones is looking deeply into the soul of humankind, and he dares you to draw your own conclusions about the journey Pete and Mike have taken. --Jeff Shannon
Oscar® winner Tommy Lee Jones (Best Supporting Actor The Fugitive 1993) directs and stars in this poetic and striking modern-day Western. Peter Perkins (Jones) is a veteran cowboy who embodies the values of the old west living in a small Texas town bordering the U.S. and Mexico. He hires Melquiades Estrada as a ranch hand and quickly befriends the man. But when Estrada is gunned down under mysterious circumstances Perkins takes justice into his own hands and kidnaps a trigger-happy border patrolman (Barry Pepper - Saving Private Ryan) forcing Perkins to unearth Estrada's body and accompany Perkins on horseback on the long and treacherous journey through the frontier mountains and back roads of Mexico to bring his friend's body home. System Requirements:Running Time 121 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: R UPC: 043396148253 Manufacturer No: 14825
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Just my opinion
After reading all the reviews, I ordered this movie and I can not tell you how disappointed I was! There was not one thing I enjoyed about this movie. I thought it was depressing from the beginning and never got any better. The acting was good, but as for the movie, I would give it 0 stars!! Don't waste your money on this one. Buy Man of the House. It is great!
BTC
Rating:  - Riding righting wrongs
This is a modern western drama well worth watching for its spirited take on friendship in the face of racism with an ethics lesson focused on atonement and redemption.
A border patrol guard with a penchant for violence accidentally shoots a Mexican working in America near the border but leaves him to die. The Mexican's friend played by Tommy Lee Jones slowly fixes to have the border patrol guard kidnapped and forces him to bring the body across to Mexico for burial. Along the way they ... Read More
Rating: - three buriels of some mexican
excellent movie couldnt get glue off dvd case from security stickers worst case I've ever seen thinking of trying paint thinner to remove it.
Rating: - 2 thumbs up
I stumbled upon this movie and saw pieces of it until I became fixated by it and had to buy a copy for myself and to share. Tommy Lee Jones grew up in SanSaba Texas and his grand father had a construction company near the border. TLJ may or may not be a great actor and this role will not settle the argument because I swear he was not acting, if he is not a Texas cow hand, then all he did was copy the real people he has seen all his life. Most of the extras were not acting either, they were themselves, ... Read More
Rating: - Got A Jones For January
Brilliant movie. I won't go into the plot, don't have the time, but if you liked Lonesome Dove and such, you will love this one. It's a tad gritty though. Jones's face is a craggy and rugged and beat up as the rough Texican country that the movie is set in. And ol' Levon Helm has seen better days, too; both could stand some serious dermatological hydration.
But here's the thing: Barry Pepper's border guard deserves a knock upside the head for not keeping little hot blonde January Jones home ... Read More
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