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Lone Star
Why this pick
A patient, humane Texas-border mystery in which an old death opens onto buried loyalties, racial history, and compromised authority—matching the original’s measured pace and moral complexity.
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MOVIE2005 2h 1m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Melquiades Estrada , a Mexican Illegal immigration to the United States working in Texas as a cowboy, shoots at a coyote which is menacing his small flock of goats. A nearby United States Border Patrol officer, Norton, thinks he is being attacked and shoots back, killing Melquiades. Norton quickly buries Melquiades and does not report anything. Melquiades' body is found and is reburied in a local cemetery by the sheriff's office. Evidence that he may have been killed by the U.S. Border Patrol is ignored by the local sheriff, Belmont, who would prefer to avoid trouble with the Border Patrol.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Barry Pepper
Mike Norton
January Jones
Lou Ann Norton
Levon Helm
Old Man with Radio
Irineo Alvarez
Manuel
Guillermo Arriaga
Juan
Sonny Carl Davis
Kruger
Richard Jones
Bob
Sean Hennigan
Chuck