Cast

Tommy Lee Jones Barry Pepper Dwight Yoakam January Jones Julio Cesar Cedillo Melissa Leo

Credits

Written by: Guillermo Arriaga

Plot

A Texas ranch foreman, Pete Perkins, forces the border patrol agent who killed his Mexican friend by accident to dig up the body and take it back to be buried in his home village in Mexico, in a dark, humane modern Western.

Sinekatalog’s take

A dark, humane and offbeat modern Western.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (43,536 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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