R | 2h 2m | Drama, Western | November 14, 2014 Tommy Lee Jones’s character, in the TV series “Lonesome Dove,” schleps his friend’s corpse (played by Robert Duvall) in a makeshift, drag-able coffin, behind his horse for months, to honor his friend’s burial request, even though it meant riding hundreds of miles through dangerous Wild West territory. He promised he’d do it.
In the Jones-directed “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,” his character therein also takes a journey to bury someone because he promised to.
In “The Homesman,” Jones’s 2014 directorial effort, his character carts three insane women across Nebraska in a covered wagon. Take a wild guess why….