A deputy named Dixon (Sam Rockwell) with a history of brutality is particularly incensed by the public shaming. Willoughby has cancer, though, and the town thinks Mildred’s harping is unseemly. The police and citizens of Ebbing want her to shut up already, which is why McDormand’s Mildred rents the eponymous billboards on which she calls out the sheriff, Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), for his alleged inaction. What to make of the Irish-born Martin McDonagh, whose plays stake out a border between the whimsically mundane and the tragically murderous and whose movies ( In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) push the edge even more perversely? His Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was the audience favorite at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, and there’s mad buzz over Frances McDormand’s performance as a mother who - understandably - can’t let go of the rape and murder of her teenage daughter, which has, in less than a year, become a cold case.
Photo: Merrick Morton/Twentieth Century Fox Woody Harrelson and Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
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