Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI is a darkly comic drama from Academy Award nominee Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). 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 (Academy Award winner 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.
Despite a mid-range budget of $15.0M, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri became a massive hit, earning $162.7M worldwide—a remarkable 985% return.
2 Oscars. 132 wins & 233 nominations
Characters
Cast & narrative archetypes
Mildred Hayes
Jason Dixon
Chief Bill Willoughby
Robbie Hayes
Charlie
Anne Willoughby
James
Main Cast & Characters
Mildred Hayes
Played by Frances McDormand
A grieving mother who rents three billboards to call out the police for failing to solve her daughter's murder.
Jason Dixon
Played by Sam Rockwell
A racist, volatile police officer who undergoes a transformation through suffering and sacrifice.
Chief Bill Willoughby
Played by Woody Harrelson
The compassionate police chief criticized by the billboards, dying of cancer and trying to do right by everyone.
Robbie Hayes
Played by Lucas Hedges
Mildred's teenage son who struggles with his mother's crusade and his own grief.
Charlie
Played by John Hawkes
Mildred's ex-husband, an abusive man now dating a much younger woman.
Anne Willoughby
Played by Abbie Cornish
Bill's loving wife who confronts Mildred about the billboards despite her own grief.
James
Played by Peter Dinklage
Mildred's friend who works at the gift shop and provides moral support.