The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
film by Jones [2005]
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discussed in biography
- In Tommy Lee Jones
…starred in the grim drama The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), which traces the efforts of a rancher to return the body of a friend to Mexico following his accidental shooting. Jones later played a weathered Texas sheriff in the Coen brothers’ adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for…
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role of Leo
- In Melissa Leo
…role in Tommy Lee Jones’s The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005). Leo’s performance as a single mother in desperate financial straits who becomes a smuggler of illegal refugees in Frozen River (2008) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for best actress, and she won both the Golden…
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