• 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

 

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