When these two go head-to-head, they are equally matched combatants: respectful, even caring, but unwilling to budge an inch. Harrelson's Willoughby, meanwhile, is like the sweetheart version of his True Detective character, Marty Hart: a hyper-competent investigator turned world-weary peace-keeper. McDormand's character is hard-edged and intelligent, with no one left to answer to except herself. McDormand and Harrelson play off of each other well, spinning new variations on the kind of roles they've settled into in recent years. Known for beating information out of witnesses, Dixon puts the pressure on Mildred by physically threatening the young man who runs the billboard company ( Get Out‘s Caleb Landry Jones) and arresting her friend (Amanda Warren) on B.S. Sam Rockwell plays Dixon, one of the officers under Chief Willoughby, who doesn't take kindly to Mildred's stubbornness and whose temperament is that of an under-educated bully. But Mildred is not the kind of woman to back off. The whole town knows of Willoughby's predicament, and certain folks try to drop hints that Mildred should back off. He's also somewhat distracted by the fact that he is dying of terminal cancer. Chief Willoughby is sympathetic to Mildred and the rawness of her feelings, but he simply doesn't have any promising leads. The Chief Willoughby who is being called out is a thoughtful good ol' boy, played with ease by Woody Harrelson. It was an ugly, horrific crime that leaves a gaping hole in Mildred. The victim was Mildred's teenage daughter, Angela. Mildred's decision to rent three neglected billboards near her home starts a war with her local police department, and with many of her neighbors. But unlike the stylized gangster-world setting of McDonagh's earlier flicks, Three Billboards sets its action in an outwardly unassuming American small town.įrances McDormand stars as Mildred Hayes, whose attitude is no-nonsense to the point of alienating prickliness. A horrific crime leads to a spiral of pain, anger, revenge, and violence that seems to beget only more pain, anger, revenge, and violence. The new film from writer-director Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, covers similar thematic ground to his first two feature films, In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths.
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