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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Crime · Drama · 2017

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

Movie details

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

“A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.”

2017 Crime · Drama 1h 55m

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TMDB

8.0 / 10

Community rating

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, 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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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Martin McDonagh

Written by

Martin McDonagh

Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand

Mildred

Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

Willoughby

Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell

Dixon

Abbie Cornish

Abbie Cornish

Anne

Lucas Hedges

Lucas Hedges

Robbie

Željko Ivanek

Željko Ivanek

Desk Sergeant

Caleb Landry Jones

Caleb Landry Jones

Red Welby

Court is in session

Put Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Form is the argument.”

Every composed frame and deliberate cut is evidence that control can be thrilling in its own right.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Technique in search of a pulse.”

Immaculate construction is still construction. The film may be too busy proving its craft to feel alive.