Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, France, Mexico
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.
- mexico
- texas
- illegal immigration
- border patrol
- usa–mexico border
- promise
- corpse
- desert
- neo-western
- coyote
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tommy Lee Jones
Pete Perkins
Barry Pepper
Mike Norton
Dwight Yoakam
Sheriff Frank Belmont
January Jones
Lou Ann Norton
- Melissa Leo — Rachel
- Julio Cesar Cedillo — Melquiades Estrada
- Levon Helm — Old Man with Radio
- Mel Rodriguez — Captain Gomez
- Cecilia Suárez — Rosa
- Ignacio Guadalupe — Lucio
- Vanessa Bauche — Mariana
- Irineo Alvarez — Manuel
- Guillermo Arriaga — Juan
- Josh Berry — Border Patrolman
- Rodger Boyce — Salesman
- Directed
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Written
- Guillermo Arriaga
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 665 ratings
- Studio
- EuropaCorp, The Javelina Film Company
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