Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

When justice won’t come, sometimes you have to make a statement.

Rating

4.5 (1)

Release Date

12/1/2017

Runtime

115 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$162,729,321

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How It Feels

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A bruising character study wrapped in a crime drama, where grief and righteous rage collide with small-town inertia and institutional failure. It's an uncomfortable, darkly funny provocation about whether anger is ever truly justified.

Mood

AngryTenseBittersweetDefiant

Themes

GriefJusticeRedemptionPower

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticHigh-contrast

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violenceRacial violenceSuicide and self-harm

Reviews

stormaciousd

Did I call this Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Michigan? Yes. How many times? I think at least three.

I loved this as I was watching it. I always love Sam Rockwell, and he and Frances McDormand are so great here, especially at nailing the dark comedy. It also feels like the kind of movie that can kind of fall apart if you really think about it, but I'm not going to think about it anymore right now than I already have.

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