![]() ![]() Mildred has little patience for anyone who gets in her way which, combined with no discernible social skills, means she cuts a swath through the town’s populace, most of whom have turned against her in some manner. The reason, we find out, is that she wants to keep the pressure on the local sheriff who has yet to find the person who killed her daughter. The TrailersĪs the first trailer starts we meet Mildred Hayes as she’s fixing to buy some billboard ads. The theatrical poster featured the same dark, barren landscape photo as the first, but with photos of the three primary cast members included on the side each appearing in a cut out of the state of Missouri. ![]() Aside from the cast list and title, the other element on the poster is the name-dropping of a couple of McDonagh’s other well-loved movies. The rest of the image, though, is of the beautiful big skyline of Missouri at dusk, the dark clouds dominating the sky as the sun sets in the distance. We see the backs of the three titular billboards at the very bottom of the first poster, a police cruiser driving past on the rural highway they’re placed along. That, along with her other brash behavior, brings her into conflict with the police force, including Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) and Dixon (Sam Rockwell), who don’t take kindly to being called lazy or worse. Frustrated by inaction, Mildred decides to call out the police in a very public way, by broadcasting their inability to arrest the killer on a serious of billboards on the edge of town. McDormand plays Mildred, whose daughter was killed months ago but whose murder has remained unsolved. This time around Frances McDormand stars in a story that involves a mother’s righteous anger, allegations of police indifference and the lengths that mother will go to in order to solve a problem the authorities won’t. Strong performances anchor the campaign for a story of a mother’s grief.ĭirector Martin McDonagh steps outside of the world of comic violence he’s well known for to bring us this week’s new release Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. ![]()
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