Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.

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.

Directed by: Martin McDonagh

Written by: Martin McDonagh

Music by: Carter Burwell

Starring: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Željko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, Samara Weaving, John Hawkes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Released: 2017-12-01

Runtime: 115 minutes

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• Principal photography began on May 2, 2016, in Sylva, North Carolina, and ran for 33 days.
• While traveling through the Southern United States c. 1998, Martin McDonagh came across a couple of accusatory billboards that alleged a woman named Kathy Page had been murdered by her husband Steve Page in Vidor, Texas, and highlighted the incompetence of the police in solving the case.
• Three Billboards premiered in competition at the 74th Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2017.
• The weekend following its four Golden Globe wins on January 7, 2018, the film was added to 712 theaters (for a total of 1,022) and grossed $2.3 million, an increase of 226% from the previous weekend's $706,188.
• The character of Mildred was written with Frances McDormand in mind, and the character of Dixon was written specially for Sam Rockwell.
• Town Pump Tavern in Black Mountain, which had been featured in The World Made Straight (2015), was closed for three days while filming took place inside.
• In its limited opening weekend, the film made $322,168 from four theaters, for a per-theater average of $80,542, the fourth-best of 2017.
• Alyssa Rosenberg noted in The Washington Post that the film is dramatically uneven and undermined by the redemption arc of the racist police officer Dixon, played by Sam Rockwell.
• In 2021, members of Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) voted its screenplay 80th in WGA's 101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century (so far).
• Carter Burwell's score for the film was nominated for Best Original Score at the 90th Academy Awards.
• Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, John Hawkes, and Peter Dinklage appear in supporting roles.
• The film was theatrically released in the United States in November 2017 and in the United Kingdom in January 2018 by Fox Searchlight Pictures, and it grossed $162 million at the worldwide box office.

Source: Wikipedia

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