Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comic, emotionally raw drama about grief, anger and the messy search for justice. After seven months with no arrests in her daughter's rape and murder, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) rents three dilapidated billboards on the highway into her small Missouri town to publicly shame the police chief for their failure to catch the killer. Her provocation sets off a combustible chain of events that draws in the town’s beloved but ailing Chief Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) and the volatile, deeply flawed Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell), and forces everyone—residents and lawmen alike—into morally complicated confrontations. If you watch the film you’ll experience biting, often uncomfortable black humor alongside sudden outbursts of violence and tenderness. The tone swings between savage satire and heartbreaking realism: scenes that make you laugh at the absurdity of small‑town politics are followed by moments that hit with real emotional force. The performances are searing and layered, and the characters are rarely simply good or bad—each carries guilt, regret, or a capacity for surprising compassion. Expect a tense, atmospheric small‑town setting, sharp dialogue, moments of shock and catharsis, and an ending that favors ambiguity and moral reckoning over neat closure. Content warnings: strong language, violence, and themes of sexual assault and grief.

Actors: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell

Director: Martin McDonagh

Runtime: 115 min

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama

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