an unsolved mystery. Hollis voices concern that, when the skeleton is revealed to be Wade, people will assume Buddy killed him to take his job, to which Sam states that Buddy's legend can handle it. Pilar meets Sam at an old drive-in theater where Sam shows her an old photo of Buddy and Mercedes and tells her Eladio died 18 months, rather than "a couple months", before she was born, revealing Buddy is Pilar's father. Both are hurt over the deception but decide that, since she cannot have any more children, they will continue their romantic relationship, despite the knowledge that they are half-siblings. Cast Kris Kristofferson as Charlie Wade Matthew McConaughey as Buddy Deeds Chris Cooper as Sam Deeds Elizabeth Peña as Pilar Cruz Míriam Colón as Mercedes Cruz Clifton James as Hollis Pogue Jeff Monahan as young Hollis Pogue Ron Canada as Otis Payne Gabriel Casseus as young Otis Payne Carmen de Lavallade as Carolyn Payne Joe Morton as Delmore Payne Eddie Robinson as Chet Payne Frances McDormand as Bunny Stephen Mendillo as Sgt. Cliff LaTanya Richardson as Sgt. Priscilla Worth Jesse Borrego as Danny Padilla Tony Plana as Ray Oni Faida Lampley as Celie Payne Eleese Lester as Molly Tony Frank as Fenton Gordon Tootoosis as Wesley Birdsong Beatrice Winde as Minnie Bledsoe Chandra Wilson as Athena Johnson Richard Reyes as Jorge Production The movie was filmed in Del Rio, Eagle Pass and Laredo, Texas. Reception Critical response On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 92% based on 52 reviews, with a rating average of 8.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Smart and absorbing, Lone Star represents a career high point for writer-director John Sayles -- and '90s independent cinema in general." On Metacritic, it has a score of 78% based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Two years after release, Jack Mathews of the Los Angeles Times declared it "critically acclaimed and darn near commercial". In retrospect from 2004, William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that the film was "widely regarded as Sayles' masterpiece", declaring that it had "captured the zeitgeist of the '90s as successfully as "Chinatown" did the '70s". Writing at the time of release, Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, "This long, spare, contemplatively paced film, scored with a wide range of musical styles and given a sun-baked clarity by Stuart Dryburgh's