Joining Martin McDonagh and Frances McDormand in the ensemble at the heart of the film are acclaimed actors Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, John Hawkes, Lucas Hedges and Peter Dinklage. Mildred Hayes marks the first time Martin McDonagh has written a female lead for a film, but she is perhaps his most relentless character as well, an aggrieved mother without regret who comes to test the very fabric of her town. But I also see Brando and Montgomery Clift in there, too." 'I think John Wayne did become a touchstone to a degree for Frances. 'I could see it in her walk and her attitude," says Martin McDonagh. 'She is more in the tradition of the Spaghetti Western's mystery man, who comes walking down the center of the street, guns drawn, and blows everybody away - although I think it's important that the only weapons Mildred ever uses are her wits." 'I really latched onto John Wayne in a big way as my physical idea, because I really had no female physical icons to go off of for Mildred Hayes," she explains. It was a story that would lead to Oscar®-winner Frances McDormand channeling a modern, female variant of the classic western hero in a showdown-style performance. 'Mildred was someone strong, determined and raging, yet also broken inside. 'I decided the buyer of the billboards was an aggrieved mother and from there things almost wrote themselves," Martin McDonagh recalls. It all begins with Mildred Hayes and the three billboards she rents on Drinkwater Road.
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The film is the third from Martin McDonagh, the Irish playwright, screenwriter and director known for the hit thriller In Bruges, with its Oscar® nominated and BAFTA winning Screenplay, and the crime comedy Seven Psychopaths.
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'What's the law on what you can and cannot say on a billboard?" - Mildred HayesĪ last stand erupts in Martin McDonagh's trip into small town America in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, as a mother is pushed to the edge by her daughter's unsolved murder. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 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.
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. Synopsis: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comic drama from Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). Cast: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell