Lone Star (1996 film)

Lone Star is a 1996 film about a sheriff who, after the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
 * Directed and written by John Sayles.

John Sayles invites you to return to the scene of the crime.

Sheriff Sam Deeds

 * You oughta put up a banner: "Frontera, Texas: gateway to inexpensive pussy."
 * No telling yet if there's been a crime, but this country's seen a fair amount of disagreements over the years.

Pilar Cruz

 * All my mother does is work. That's how you get to be Spanish.
 * All that other stuff, all that history? To hell with it, right? Forget the Alamo.

Otis Payne

 * It's not like there's a line between the good people and the bad people. It is not like you're one or the other.

Wesley Birdsong

 * Hell, at my age, you learn a new name you gotta forget an old one.

Dialogue

 * Mickey: Think her family's gonna be okay that you're a white guy?
 * Sgt. Cliff: They think any woman over 30 who isn't married is a lesbian. She figures, they'll be so relieved that I'm a man...
 * Mickey: Yeah, it's always heartwarming to see a prejudice defeated by a deeper prejudice.


 * Bartender: I'm as liberal as the next guy.
 * Sheriff Sam Deeds: If the next guy is a redneck.


 * Chucho Montoya: You're the sheriff of Rio County, right? Un jefe mui respectado. [drawing a line in the sand] Step across this line. You're not the sheriff of nothing anymore, just some tejano with a lot of questions I don't have to answer. A bird flying south, you think he sees this line? Rattlesnake? Javelina? Whatever you got. You think halfway across that line they start thinking different? Why should a man?
 * Sheriff Sam Deeds: Your government's always been pretty happy to have that line, the question's just been where to draw it.
 * Chucho Montoya: My government can go fuck itself, and so can yours! I'm talking about people here. Men.


 * Sheriff Sam Deeds: Mrs. Bledsoe?
 * Minnie Bledsoe: That's me.
 * Sheriff Sam Deeds: I'm Sheriff Deeds.
 * Minnie Bledsoe: Sheriff Deeds is dead, honey. You just Sheriff Junior.
 * Sheriff Sam Deeds: Yeah, that's the story of my life.


 * Coworker: Your mother's family is Spanish?
 * Pilar Cruz: Sure, they go back to Cortés. When he rode by, they were squatting in a hut cooking hamsters for dinner.

Cast

 * Chris Cooper as Sheriff Sam Deeds
 * Matthew McConaughey - Buddy Deeds
 * Kris Kristofferson - Sheriff Charlie Wade
 * Elizabeth Peña - Pilar Cruz
 * Stephen Mendillo - Sgt. Cliff
 * Joe Morton - Colonel Delmore Payne
 * Ron Canada - Otis Payne
 * Jesse Borrego - Danny
 * Tony Plana - Ray
 * Frances McDormand - Bunny
 * Clifton James - Mayor Hollis Pogue
 * Tony Frank - Fenton (final film role)
 * Míriam Colón - Mercedes Cruz

Voice cast

 * Bill Farmer - Captain Thomas
 * Tony Goldwyn - Captain Kevin