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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
127 Views


Never be another like him.

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You know that boy of his can't cut it.

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He's all hat and no cattle.

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Hey, fellas.

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We was telling a few on your old man.

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He was a unique individual.

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He was that.

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Big day coming up.

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I wish we'd have thought of it

while he was still living.

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Went so unexpected.

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Better late than never.

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Korean War hero,

sheriff for nearly 30 years....

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The Buddy Deeds Memorial Courthouse.

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I heard there was a bit of a fuss.

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Well, the usual troublemakers.

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Danny Padilla from the iSentinel/i.

That crowd.

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We call everything else in the country

after Martin Luther King.

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We can't have one measly courthouse?

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King wasn't Mexican, Fenton.

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Bad enough that all the street names

are in Spanish.

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They were here first.

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Then let's call it after Big Chief

Sh*t-In-The-Bucket. That Tonkawa had...

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...the Mexes beat by centuries.

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Nineteen out of 20 people here

are Mexican.

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There was a faction pulling

for that boy killed in the Gulf War--

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Yeah. Santiago.

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Mexicans that know remember what...

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...Buddy was for their people.

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Hell, it was Mercedes over there

who swung...

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...the deciding vote for him.

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She made it an even 3-3.

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As mayor, I get to cast the tiebreaker.

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The old-timers won't have a problem.

They know how Buddy come to be sheriff.

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Tell that story, Hollis.

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Everybody heard it a million times.

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I'd like to hear it.

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Your version of it.

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Yeah, come on, Hollis.

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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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