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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
183 Views


576

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...who'd hesitate for a minute...

577

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38:56,040 -- 00:38:59,589

...before they'd call on Buddy Deeds

to solve a problem.

578

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39:00,920 -- 00:39:02,353

More than that...

579

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39:04,040 -- 00:39:05,712

...I wouldn't care to say.

580

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39:08,280 -- 00:39:11,397

I'm supposed to tell my friends

they're too low-class to hang with?

581

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39:11,480 -- 00:39:12,833

Come on, Amado.

582

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39:12,960 -- 00:39:16,191

-'Cause I'm not like Miss Honor Roll?

-Leave your sister out of it.

583

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39:16,280 -- 00:39:18,271

You and those teachers in that dump....

584

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39:18,360 -- 00:39:20,635

Your story's over, so nobody can have fun.

585

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39:20,720 -- 00:39:21,630

You jerk.

586

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39:21,720 -- 00:39:23,551

You have no friends.

587

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39:23,640 -- 00:39:25,631

Who'd be friends with a ipachuco/i wannabe?

588

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39:26,000 -- 00:39:29,549

-I don't pretend I came on the Mayflower.

-And those stupid girls.

589

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39:29,640 -- 00:39:30,675

Shut up.

590

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39:31,000 -- 00:39:34,356

Joanie Orozco's telling the whole school

she's in love with Santo Guerra.

591

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39:34,440 -- 00:39:35,316

So?

592

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39:35,400 -- 00:39:37,868

You can't be desperately in love

when you're 14.

593

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39:38,760 -- 00:39:40,876

Not if you have half a brain in your head.

594

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39:40,960 -- 00:39:42,552

Of course, you can.

595

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39:43,160 -- 00:39:44,036

What?

596

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39:44,480 -- 00:39:47,119

It's got nothing to do with being smart.

597

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39:48,040 -- 00:39:50,508

It's ancient goddamn history, Danny.

598

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1963, they dam up the north branch

to make Lake Pescadero...

599

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...and a whole town disappears.

600

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A squatter's town!

601

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39:57,720 -- 00:40:02,032

People lived in Perdido for over 100 years!

Mexicans and Chicanos are deported...

602

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...forcibly evicted by our local hero,

Buddy Deeds, and his department.

603

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40:06,000 -- 00:40:08,116

There was a bill from the state legislature.

604

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40:08,200 -- 00:40:11,317

Families were split apart!

A whole community was destroyed!

605

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40:11,440 -- 00:40:15,592

And who gets Lakefront property

bought for a fraction of the market price?

606

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40:15,920 -- 00:40:19,754

Buddy Deeds, Sheriff of Rio County,

and his Chief Deputy, Hollis Pogue.

607

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40:20,520 -- 00:40:21,839

Are you finished?

608

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40:23,240 -- 00:40:25,037

Look, I'm not after you, Sam.

609

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40:25,440 -- 00:40:28,910

I just think people ought to know

the full story on Buddy Deeds.

610

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40:31,280 -- 00:40:32,759

That makes two of us.

611

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40:36,720 -- 00:40:40,838

What's the big deal? Go back over,

talk to the man, and bury the hatchet.

612

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40:40,920 -- 00:40:44,151

Why me? He's had almost 40 years

and I haven't heard from him.

613

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40:44,240 -- 00:40:45,639

He was probably embarrassed.

614

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40:45,720 -- 00:40:48,871

Otis Payne was never embarrassed

about a thing in his life.

615

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40:49,120 -- 00:40:50,917

You were 8 when he left.

616

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40:51,160 -- 00:40:54,232

He moved three houses down

with my mother's best friend.

617

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40:54,760 -- 00:40:55,795

Dad.

618

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40:56,480 -- 00:40:58,630

''Delmore, where's your daddy?''

619

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Godforsaken town.

Everybody in everybody else's business.

620

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41:02,480 -- 00:41:04,152

Everybody loved Otis. Big ''O.''

621

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41:04,240 -- 00:41:07,357

Always there with a smile or a loan...

622

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41:07,440 -- 00:41:10,238

-...or a free drink.

-Dad, can I talk to you about track?

623

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41:10,320 -- 00:41:11,275

People change.

624

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41:11,840 -- 00:41:12,989

Not that much.

625

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41:13,080 -- 00:41:14,035

I talked to the coach.

626

00:
41:14,120 -- 00:41:16,315

I told you. Next year,

if your grades are high.

627

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41:16,400 -- 00:41:17,594

I have a B average!

628

00:
41:17,680 -- 00:41:20,353

How many B students do you think

they take at West Point?

629

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41:20,440 -- 00:41:22,829

We'll be here for three years.

We'll have to see him.

630

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41:23,480 -- 00:41:24,879

No, we don't.

631

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41:34,160 -- 00:41:37,152

Get off the phone.

We've got a big wedding.

632

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41:37,480 -- 00:41:38,435

Mommy....

633

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41:42,520 -- 00:41:44,715

They are getting stupider every year.

634

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41:44,840 -- 00:41:47,115

Maybe you're getting less patient.

635

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41:47,680 -- 00:41:50,877

If they're going to survive,

they have to know how to work.

636

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41:51,240 -- 00:41:53,708

You hire illegals, what do you expect?

637

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41:54,280 -- 00:41:56,191

Nobody's illegal in my cafe!

638

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41:56,560 -- 00:41:59,996

They've got green cards,

relatives who were born here.

639

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42:00,400 -- 00:42:03,153

If they only had a little common sense,

I'd be happy.

640

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42:03,240 -- 00:42:06,232

If you took more time training them,

you wouldn't have to--

641

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42:06,320 -- 00:42:09,676

Did you come here to teach me

how to run my business?

642

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42:17,440 -- 00:42:19,476

Do you want to take a trip...

643

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42:19,600 -- 00:42:21,033

...down south with us?

644

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42:21,120 -- 00:42:23,111

Maybe see where you grew up?

645

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42:23,560 -- 00:42:26,393

-Why would I want to go there?

-You must be curious...

646

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42:26,480 -- 00:42:30,234

...how it's changed. Amado is

into this big itejano/i-roots thing...

647

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42:31,680 -- 00:42:34,274

...and I've never been further

than Ciudad Len.

648

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42:34,480 -- 00:42:36,118

You want to see Mexicans?

649

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42:36,280 -- 00:42:38,316

Open your eyes and look around you.

650

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42:38,600 -- 00:42:40,477

We're up to our ears in them.

651

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42:42,480 -- 00:42:43,754

Mommy...

652

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42:45,600 -- 00:42:48,194

...how old were you when my father died?

653

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He was killed.

654

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Right, when he was killed.

655

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42:54,440 -- 00:42:56,908

A little older than Paloma is now.

656

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42:57,800 -- 00:42:59,631

How come you never remarried?

657

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43:01,240 -- 00:43:03,151

It just didn't happen.

658

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43:04,680 -- 00:43:05,954

There must have been...

659

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...somebody.

660

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I was too busy.

661

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43:12,400 -- 00:43:14,391

Nobody is too busy.

662

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Maybe now.

663

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It was different back then.

664

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43:18,840 -- 00:43:21,718

I had to do all the shopping,

all the cooking....

665

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What do I need some ichulo/i with grease

under his nails to drink up the profit?

666

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43:27,000 -- 00:43:27,876

Thank you.

667

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43:28,160 -- 00:43:29,388

I don't mean Fernando.

668

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43:30,720 -- 00:43:33,280

When I brought him home,

those were your exact words:

669

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43:33,360 -- 00:43:35,351

''A ichulo/i with grease under his nails.''

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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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