Angered by the lack of respect for the chief's authority, Dixon threatens the businessman who rented Mildred the billboards, Red Welby, and also arrests Mildred’s friend Denise on trivial charges for drug possession. He also reveals to her he is suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer.
While Bill is sympathetic to Mildred's frustration, he finds the billboards an unfair attack on his character. The billboards upset many townspeople, including Chief Bill Willoughby ( Woody Harrelson) and a racist, alcoholic police officer Jason Dixon ( Sam Rockwell).ĭespite harassment and threats, Mildred remains determined for the billboards to stay up. Angry over the lack of progress in the investigation, Mildred rents three disused billboards near her home and posts on them: " Raped While Dying", " And Still No Arrests?", and " How Come, Chief Willoughby?".
In the fictional town of Ebbing, Missouri, Mildred Hayes ( Frances McDormand) is grieving over the rape and murder of her teenage daughter, Angela, seven months earlier. McDonagh won the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for his screenplay, and the film won the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for Best Picture. McDormand and Rockwell each won the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, SAG Award, BAFTA Award, and Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, respectively, with Harrelson also receiving Oscar, SAG, and BAFTA nominations. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was acclaimed by critics, who lauded McDonagh's screenplay and direction as well as the performances of McDormand, Harrelson, and Rockwell. The film was released theatrically in the United States in November 2017 and in the United Kingdom in January 2018 by Fox Searchlight Pictures and grossed $160 million worldwide. Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, John Hawkes, and Peter Dinklage appear in supporting roles.
Graham Broadbent, Martin McDonagh, Peter Czerninįrances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Zeljko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, Samara Weaving, Nick Searcy, Kerry Condonįoxsearchlight.Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a 2017 crime drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Martin McDonagh and starring Frances McDormand as a Missouri woman who rents three roadside billboards to call attention to her daughter's unsolved rape and murder. When the chief's second-in-command Officer Dixon ( Sam Rockwell), an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
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The billboards seem to get under the skin of several of the town's residents, but Mildred is plenty capable of taking them on. She rents three billboards leading into the town and paints controversial messages on them pointing a finger at police chief William Willoughby ( Woody Harrelson) ineptness. When the Ebbing, Missouri Police Department is unable to solve her daughter Angela's murder, tough-as-nails Mildred Hayes ( Frances McDormand) decides to make a bold move.