Lone Star is only the second John Sayles movie that I've seen, and it's excellent, one of those movies with a sprawling cast and featuring about five intertwining stories. Set in a small Texas town, the movie's primary focus on Sheriff Buddy Deeds Jr., who's investigating a skeleton found in the nearby desert. The skeleton belongs to Charlie Wade, a former Sheriff who mysteriously vanished, and as Deeds Jr. investigates, he begins to suspect that his father was Wade's murderer. Other subplots involve Deeds reviving a high school love affair, the closing of the town's army base, the new colonel and his strained relationship with his father, and the old history of Wade's thuggery, told in flashbacks. Not all of these plots get resolved, but the two primary ones do, in a bittersweet and memorable ending.