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Synopsis

Tommy 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. In the film, 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. Peter Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones), a local ranch foreman kidnaps a Border Patrolman (Barry Pepper) 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.

THE THREE BURIALS earned Tommy Lee Jones the best actor award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

Film Information

• Genre: Drama / Western
• Director: Tommy Lee Jones
• Written By: Guillermo Arriaga
• Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam, and January Jones
• Running Time: 121 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: R
• Language: English
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Reviews

"Incisive yet supple, wrenching yet deeply pleasurable, THE THREEE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA easily ranks among the year's best pictures."

   - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

"Making an altogether impressive big-screen directing debut, Jones exudes quiet control over this full-bodied Western, taking pleasure in his measured pacing, mixing somber authority with flashes of surrealist wit and luxuriating in the magnificent, vanishing vistas of his home state."

   - Scott Foundas, LA Weekly

"THE THREEE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA is beautiful, authentic and brutally observant of human nature. With real Tex-Mex backdrops instead of the usual Monument Valley vistas and characters too complex to withstand simple white-hat/black-hat reductionism, THREE BURIALS is a visionary portrait of the New West. This is the terrain of Eastwood and Peckinpah, saddled with the concerns of 21st-century life."

   - Peter Debruge, Premiere

"In an era when hundreds of lives are casually destroyed in action movies, here is an entire film in which one life is honored, and one death is avenged."

   - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"Tommy Lee Jones steps behind the camera to direct himself in the most impressive directorial debut the American cinema has seen in some time, a contemporary western both rough and poetic, laconic and passionate."

   - Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Showtimes

• Wednesday, April 19th
  6:45 pm
• Thursday, April 20th
  9:15 pm
• Friday, April 21st
  4:30 pm, 9:30 pm
• Saturday, April 22nd
  7:00 pm
• Sunday, April 23rd
  7:00 pm
• Monday, April 24th
  6:45 pm
• Tuesday, April 25th
  9:15 pm
• Wednesday, April 26th
  9:30 pm
• Thursday, April 27th
  6:45 pm
• Friday, April 28th
  7:00 pm
• Saturday, April 29th
  2:00 pm, 9:30 pm
• Sunday, April 30th
  2:00 pm
• Monday, May 1st
  9:30 pm
• Tuesday, May 2nd
  7:00 pm