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Release date United States: Wednesday, December 14, 2005, DVD release: TBA

Director: Tommy Lee Jones

Cast:

Tommy Lee Jones as Pete Perkins
Barry Pepper as Mike Norton
Julio Cedillo as Melquiades Estrada (as Julio Cesar Cedillo)
Dwight Yoakam as Sheriff Belmont
January Jones as Lou Ann Norton
Melissa Leo as Rachel
Vanessa Bauche as Mariana
Levon Helm as Old Man W/Radio
Mel Rodriguez as Captain Gomez
Cecilia Suarez as Rosa
Ignacio Guadalupe as Lucio
Irineo Alvarez as Manuel
Guillermo Arriaga as Juan
Josh Berry as Border Patrolman #1
Rodger Boyce as Salesman
Uriel Chavez as Cowboy #2
Sonny Carl Davis as Kruger
Montserrat de Leon as El Toston Woman #2
Jesse De Luna as Miller
Richard Dillard as Jim
Jorge Espindola as Cowboy #1

About:

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. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman 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.

Genres:
Drama

Producers: Luc Besson

Writers: Guillermo Arriaga

Studio: Sony Pictures Classics