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THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
DISTR Theatrical
Release date : Mar 02, 2018
 
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Completed - ENGLISH - Drama, Black comedy - 115 minutes

Year of production : 2017

Director(s) : Martin MCDONAGH
Cast : Frances MCDORMAND, Woody HARRELSON, Sam ROCKWELL, Peter DINKLAGE, John HAWKES

Producer(s) : Graham BROADBENT (BLUEPRINT PICTURES), Pete CZERNIN (BLUEPRINT PICTURES)

Synopsis

A frustrated and grieving mother (Frances McDormand) antagonizes her local police force (including Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell) to call attention to the lack of progress in the search for her daughter’s killer, in the latest from dark-humour master Martin McDonagh.

The press conference for this film takes place on Monday, September 11 at 9:30am.

Strong, brave, fed up with bullshit, and desperate for justice, Mildred Hayes might be 2017's Woman of the Year. After months have passed without an arrest in her daughter's murder, Mildred (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, postering three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson), the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell) — an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence — gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement escalates.

Martin McDonagh (who won an Academy Award for his debut short film) has created a darkly comic drama that is smart, narratively unpredictable, and filled with superb performances. As with McDonagh's previous work (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) the focus of Three Billboards is on character-driven plot. Even McDonagh's most irredeemable characters are momentarily sympathetic and evolving, allowing us to embrace the hopefulness that implies.

On its surface, Three Billboards is a film about grief, forgiveness, anger, and resilience. Yet McDonagh layers in myriad observational moments about racism, war, sexism, and a deeply divided society, all captured in this fictional Missouri town. Ever present is a low-simmering tension that occasionally bursts into violence but always in the service of releasing emotion that a character is unable to articulate.

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Country(ies) : USA

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Festivals and Awards

La Biennale di Venezia - Venice FF 2017 - Competition (BEST SCREENPLAY)
Toronto - TIFF 2017 - Special Presentations (THE GROLSCH PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD)
San Sebastian FF 2017 Pearls
Stockholm IFF 2017 - Icons (Audience Award)


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