It doesn’t take much to add up the reasons why the lengthily titled “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” is on our 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2017 list. It’s the latest from writer/director Martin McDonagh (“In Bruges“), who brings together a terrific leading trio in Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell for what promises to be more incendiary stuff.
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This time around, the story centers a woman who takes matters into her own hands to find justice after her daughter is murdered and the killer remains at large. Here’s the official synopsis:
After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Academy Award 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 is only exacerbated.
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” opens on October 13th.
