This is witnessed by Abercrombie, the chief's replacement, who fires Dixon. Dixon reacts to the news of Bill's death by assaulting Welby and throwing him out of a second-story window. He leaves suicide notes for several people, including one for Mildred, in which he explains that she was not a factor in his suicide and that he secretly paid to keep the billboards up for another month, amused at the guilt this will bring her and hoping that they will keep attention on the murder. He then takes his own life in the barn with a handgun to spare his family the pain of watching him die slowly from cancer. Mildred gets help and Bill is hospitalized, but he leaves the hospital against medical advice and spends an idyllic day with his wife Anne and their two daughters. During the interview, Bill accidentally coughs up blood into Mildred's face. Mildred is visited by her abusive ex-husband Charlie ( John Hawkes), who reveals that, shortly before Angela's murder, he had turned down her request to come and live with him.īill takes Mildred in for questioning after she drills a hole in her dentist's thumb when he threatens her. 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. 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.
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