- Directed by: John Sayles
- Cast: Chris Cooper, Stephen Mendillo
- Year: 1996
- Duration: 135min
- Certificate: 15
- Type: Film
When a skeleton is discovered in the Texas desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence.
Sayles’s masterful 1996 film, novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, quietly subverts national myth making and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border. – Cinema Rediscovered