The film also stars Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Željko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, Samara Weaving, John Hawkes, and Peter Dinklage. Anticipation would be high for McDonagh’s next film anyway, but with this impeccable ensemble cast and intriguing premise, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a downright must-see.Ĭheck out our exclusive gallery of images below. The film racked up rave reviews on the fall film festival circuit and won the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Written and directed by Martin McDonagh ( In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths), the film stars Oscar-winner Frances McDormand as a woman who, after months pass without movement towards finding her daughter’s killer, commissions three billboard signs leading into her small town that single out the town’s chief of police William Willoughby ( Woody Harrelson).
But it doesn't take itself too seriously, and for the most part it's just a jolly entertaining romp of a revenge flick.We at Collider are happy to debut a batch of exclusive new images from Fox Searchlight’s upcoming darkly comedic drama Three Billboards Outisde Ebbing, Missouri. Three Billboards can be celebrated for putting the 60-year old McDormand centrestage and letting her tongue rip, and for the slightly risqué manner in which it elicits laughs/gasps from its viewers. Moreover, given its underlying premise and Mildred's narrative thrust, there is an undertone of surprising compassion to the whole affair. Unlike 2012's Seven Psychopaths (which also starred Rockwell and Harrelson, and was popular with audiences but loathed by this reviewer for its derivative, unfunny, misogynistic ranting), these characters make meaningful musings and although some of them behave reprehensively, the right people come a cropper. The vibrant script and richly drawn characters make this an often intense and constantly compelling caper, with humour nicely pitched to balance McDonagh's trademark shocks. Harrelson's smug family life belies a narrative twist and the supporting characters all feel as real as any you'd find in a small town where not much happens as a rule.Ī look at the characters in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
A marvellously incompetent Sam Rockwell initially disgusts as a bigoted cop, until we find out his overbearing mother gives him a 12am curfew. At one point in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Frances McDormand tears the movie open, showing you what a broken heart looks like. McDonagh's crème de la crème of a cast deliver his wicked lines with glee, but the playwright-director has clearly developed in his craft since 2008's breakout crime caper, as now we find our loyalties shift as character details are revealed. Shameless in her attempts to get the police to refocus their efforts, Mildred pits herself against a judgemental town, and a black comedy of pretty egregious errors ensues. She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Rev. Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, in Gibson City, Illinois. With the investigation into her daughter's death off the boil, Mildred becomes the bane of the police force's life, her sights set in particular on Woody Harrelson's Chief Willoughby. Frances McDormand, Actress: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. McDormand is Mildred, the aggrieved, grieving mother, estranged from her ratbag of a husband (a terrific John Hawkes) but tolerated by her dry, laconic teenage son ( Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges).