Lone Star Page #11

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
183 Views


Me neither.

960

01:
02:00,520 -- 01:02:01,953

Private Johnson!

961

01:
02:03,800 -- 01:02:05,916

Report to the sergeant

in the orderly's room.

962

01:
02:06,000 -- 01:02:07,752

The doctor will have a look at you.

963

01:
02:07,840 -- 01:02:09,319

No, I'm feeling okay.

964

01:
02:09,840 -- 01:02:11,034

I'm happy to hear it.

965

01:
02:11,120 -- 01:02:14,829

You go put some pee-pee in the cup

for Dr. Innis and I'll feel okay too.

966

01:
02:16,080 -- 01:02:17,991

You testing me?

967

01:
02:18,440 -- 01:02:22,115

You and 1 19 other fortunate individuals.

Put it in gear.

968

01:
02:26,880 -- 01:02:30,270

-Take this sh*t off now.

-You've been talking so much trash today!

969

01:
02:30,720 -- 01:02:32,153

You better be good, boy.

970

01:
02:32,240 -- 01:02:35,357

''Boy''? You're the good boy.

The man say ''fetch'' and you fetch.

971

01:
02:35,440 -- 01:02:36,759

Just doing my job.

972

01:
02:36,840 -- 01:02:39,035

White man's using you

to keep the black man down.

973

01:
02:39,120 -- 01:02:43,079

This isn't Houston. We run things now.

Our good day has come.

974

01:
02:43,160 -- 01:02:45,879

You chumps haven't had a good day

since the Alamo.

975

01:
02:53,120 -- 01:02:54,269

Lupe....

976

01:
02:55,240 -- 01:02:57,800

Can you get me Ben Wetzel up in Austin?

977

01:
03:31,520 -- 01:03:32,953

Wetbacks again.

978

01:
03:41,120 -- 01:03:42,473

Border Patrol?

979

01:
04:42,000 -- 01:04:42,955

Mom?

980

01:
04:43,040 -- 01:04:44,029

Yeah.

981

01:
04:44,120 -- 01:04:45,599

You staying out here?

982

01:
04:46,000 -- 01:04:47,228

For a while.

983

01:
04:50,600 -- 01:04:52,272

What's she singing about?

984

01:
04:52,520 -- 01:04:53,873

What do you think?

985

01:
06:28,320 -- 01:06:30,117

Hey, 'morning, sir!

986

01:
06:30,200 -- 01:06:31,952

Hey, Pete. How's it going?

987

01:
06:32,600 -- 01:06:34,192

Time marches on.

988

01:
06:34,360 -- 01:06:35,554

How much you got left?

989

01:
06:35,640 -- 01:06:37,039

Three months.

990

01:
06:38,200 -- 01:06:41,909

Stop growing that locoweed at your place,

you'd see more daylight.

991

01:
06:42,000 -- 01:06:44,389

It was for personal consumption.

992

01:
06:44,880 -- 01:06:47,633

You going to smoke an acre and a half

of marijuana?

993

01:
06:48,400 -- 01:06:51,392

I got a bad stomach. It helps me to digest.

994

01:
06:51,480 -- 01:06:53,755

Your father never bothered me about it.

995

01:
06:54,120 -- 01:06:58,272

Leastways not till the drug people

got on his case in the late '60s.

996

01:
06:58,960 -- 01:07:01,520

I thought he busted you a couple of times.

997

01:
07:01,680 -- 01:07:02,635

No.

998

01:
07:03,200 -- 01:07:04,519

Different charge.

999

01:
07:05,120 -- 01:07:06,473

I had a still.

1000

01:
07:06,880 -- 01:07:09,997

Made my own mescal.

That's how come I ruined my stomach.

1001

01:
07:10,520 -- 01:07:12,750

I'm surprised he bothered with it.

1002

01:
07:12,840 -- 01:07:14,956

He was afraid I'd poison somebody.

1003

01:
07:17,000 -- 01:07:19,309

Your father tried to do good for people.

1004

01:
07:19,640 -- 01:07:21,392

-So I've heard.

-And your mother...

1005

01:
07:21,480 -- 01:07:22,879

...she was a saint.

1006

01:
07:23,480 -- 01:07:25,948

Remember that summer I built that patio

at your house?

1007

01:
07:26,040 -- 01:07:28,235

She made me lunch every day.

1008

01:
07:29,400 -- 01:07:30,833

You were working there.

1009

01:
07:30,920 -- 01:07:33,673

It could have been another box lunch

from the jail.

1010

01:
07:34,640 -- 01:07:37,837

So you built our patio

while you were on the county?

1011

01:
07:38,240 -- 01:07:42,074

Out in the fresh air?

Nice gringo lady making you pies?

1012

01:
07:42,240 -- 01:07:44,196

Who'd sit in that jail cell all day?

1013

01:
07:46,000 -- 01:07:48,355

Sheriff Buddy, man.

iThere's no one like him./i

1014

01:
07:49,360 -- 01:07:51,954

After that icabrn/i, Charlie Wade.

1015

01:
07:52,040 -- 01:07:54,508

I heard Wade was a bit tough

on the Mexicans.

1016

01:
07:59,080 -- 01:08:02,311

He murdered Eladio Cruz.

Is that tough enough for you?

1017

01:
08:04,640 -- 01:08:05,834

Murdered him?

1018

01:
08:06,000 -- 01:08:08,719

Chucho Montoya saw it with his own eyes.

1019

01:
08:10,280 -- 01:08:11,838

Shot him in cold blood.

1020

01:
08:11,920 -- 01:08:13,990

iCharlie Wade was a big a**hole./i

1021

01:
08:15,400 -- 01:08:16,310

Sam....

1022

01:
08:19,120 -- 01:08:20,109

Wait up.

1023

01:
08:24,640 -- 01:08:25,834

You're out early.

1024

01:
08:27,320 -- 01:08:30,153

Haven't seen much of you at the jail lately.

1025

01:
08:30,320 -- 01:08:32,470

Well, I'm working on a few things.

1026

01:
08:33,040 -- 01:08:35,429

I'm going over to the other side.

1027

01:
08:36,400 -- 01:08:37,628

Republicans?

1028

01:
08:37,840 -- 01:08:39,273

No, Mexico.

1029

01:
08:40,280 -- 01:08:41,998

Got to talk to someone.

1030

01:
08:42,560 -- 01:08:44,232

They got telephones.

1031

01:
08:44,400 -- 01:08:45,310

No.

1032

01:
08:45,640 -- 01:08:47,312

It's got to be in person.

1033

01:
08:54,120 -- 01:08:55,439

The Committee....

1034

01:
08:56,000 -- 01:08:58,389

Jorge and Fenton and all, they...

1035

01:
08:58,960 -- 01:09:00,279

...they've asked me--

1036

01:
09:00,360 -- 01:09:02,715

They want you to stand for sheriff

next election.

1037

01:
09:04,280 -- 01:09:05,235

Yeah.

1038

01:
09:06,800 -- 01:09:08,233

You'd do a good job.

1039

01:
09:09,720 -- 01:09:10,709

Thanks.

1040

01:
09:11,960 -- 01:09:13,188

What about you?

1041

01:
09:13,800 -- 01:09:15,711

I don't know if I'll still want it.

1042

01:
09:19,400 -- 01:09:21,789

I just didn't want to go around your back.

1043

01:
09:21,920 -- 01:09:23,638

I appreciate you telling me.

1044

01:
09:26,920 -- 01:09:28,433

You think we need a new jail?

1045

01:
09:31,880 -- 01:09:33,199

Well, Sam....

1046

01:
09:34,280 -- 01:09:36,350

It's a complicated issue.

1047

01:
09:38,480 -- 01:09:39,595

Yeah, Ray.

1048

01:
09:40,920 -- 01:09:42,911

You'd be a hell of a sheriff.

1049

01:
10:34,400 -- 01:10:35,435

Down here...

1050

01:
10:35,520 -- 01:10:38,398

...we don't throw everything away

like you gringos do.

1051

01:
10:40,440 -- 01:10:41,953

Recycling, right?

1052

01:
10:43,640 -- 01:10:45,153

We invented that.

1053

01:
10:45,920 -- 01:10:48,673

The government doesn't have

to tell people to do it.

1054

01:
10:51,080 -- 01:10:52,957

You own this place, huh?

1055

01:
10:54,760 -- 01:10:56,079

This place...

1056

01:
10:56,360 -- 01:10:58,271

...the one across the street...

1057

01:
10:59,160 -- 01:11:01,628

...three or four others in Ciudad Len.

1058

01:
11:06,080 -- 01:11:07,638

''King of the Tires.''

1059

01:
11:09,640 -- 01:11:13,394

A lot of your people rolling over that bridge

on my rubber.

1060

01:
11:13,840 -- 01:11:15,956

You lived in the States for a while?

1061

01:
11:16,840 -- 01:11:17,795

Fifteen years.

1062

01:
11:18,560 -- 01:11:20,312

Made some money, came back here?

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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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