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Synopsis: John Sayles' murder-mystery explores interpersonal and interracial tensions in Rio County, Texas. Sam Deeds is the local sheriff who is called to investigate a 40-year-old skeleton found in the desert....As Sam delves deeper into the town's dark secrets, he begins to learn more about his father, the legendary former sheriff Buddy Deeds, who replaced the corrupt Charlie Wade. While Sam puzzles out the long-past events surrounding the mystery corpse, he also longs to rekindle a romance with his old high-school flame. Sayles' complex characters are brought together as the tightly woven plot finally draws to its dramatic close.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Director(s): John Sayles
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 15 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
78
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
R
Year:
1996
135 min
1,260 Views


HOLLIS:

Sam! I was just telling a few

about your old man.

FENTON:

He was a unique individual.

SAM:

Yeah, he was that.

We sense a little strain when Sam has to talk about his father--

HOLLIS:

Big day coming up--I wish we'd

have thought of it while he was

still living. But he went so

unexpected

FENTON:

Better late than never. Korean

War hero, Sheriff for near thirty

years--Buddy Deeds Memorial P---

SAM:

I heard there was a bit of a fuss.

HOLLIS:

Oh, you know, the usual

troublemakers. Danny Padilla

from the Sentinel, that crowd.

FENTON:

Every other damn thing in the

country is called after Martin

Luther King, they can't let our

side have one measly park?

HOLLIS:

King wasn't Mexican, Fenton--

FENTON:

Bad enough all the street names

are in Spanish--

SAM:

They were here first.

FENTON:

Then name it after Big Chief

Shitinabucket! Whoever that

Tonkawa fella was. He had the

Mexes beat by centuries.

HOLLIS:

There was a faction pulling for

that boy who was killed in the

Gulf War--Ruben--

SAM:

--Santiago.

HOLLIS:

Right. But nobody here ever

noticed him till they read his

name on the national news--

FENTON:

They just wanted it to be one of

theirs--

HOLLIS:

That's not the whole story. The

Mexicans that know, that remember,

understand what Buddy was for

their people. Hell, it was

Mercedes over there who swung the

deciding vote for him.

Sam looks to the register where Pilar's mother, MERCEDES

CRUZ, whacks rolls of change apart on the counter. She seems

to be avoiding looking toward him.

SAM:

That so?

HOLLIS:

She put it even at three to three,

so as the Mayor I get to cast the

tiebreaker. The older generation

won't have any problem with it.

They remember how Buddy come to

be Sheriff, that it was all 'cause

he took their part.

FENTON:

Tell that one, Hollis--

HOLLIS:

Hell, everybody heard that story

a million times.

SAM:

I'd like to hear it. Your version

of it.

Something about the way Sam says it puts Hollis on guard.

FENTON:

Go ahead, Hollis.

CU HOLLIS:

Hollis is hooked into it now --

HOLLIS:

The two of us were the only

deputies back then me and Buddy--

it's what--'58--

FENTON (O.S.)

'57, 1 believe--

HOLLIS:

And the Sheriff at the time was

Big Charley Wade. Charley was

one of your old-fashioned bribe-

or-bullets kind of Sheriffs, he

took a healthy bite out of whatever

moved through this county.

He looks down at the table--

HOLLIS:

It was in here one night, back

when Jimmy Herrera run the place.

Started right here in this booth.

We PAN down to the table, The food has changed. The tortillas

are in a straw basket instead of plastic. The jukebox changes

to ANOTHER SONG and the LIGHT DIMS slightly. A hand with a

big Masonic ring on one finger appears to lift a tortilla --

underneath it lie three ten-dollar bills. The hand lifts

them up and we TILT to see the face of SHERIFF CHARLEY WADE,

a big, mean redneck with shrewd eyes

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John Sayles

John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996). His film Men with Guns (1997) has been nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. His directorial debut, Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980), has been added to the National Film Registry. more…

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