<P> Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a 2017 black comedy - drama film written, produced, and directed by Martin McDonagh . It stars Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, and Peter Dinklage, and follows a mother who takes matters into her own hands after the police in her town are unable to find a suspect in her daughter's murder . </P> <P> The film was screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival, where it premiered on September 4, 2017 . It also played at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won its top prize, the People's Choice Award . This film was also screened at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival . </P> <P> Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was theatrically released in the United States on November 10, 2017, and will be in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2018, by Fox Searchlight Pictures. . The film received widespread acclaim from critics, who praised its screenplay, direction and performances, in particular that of McDormand, which many cited as one of the finest of her career . </P> <P> Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) is a single divorced mother still grieving and feeling immense guilt over the rape and violent murder of her teenaged daughter Angela seven months prior . Infuriated with the police over the lack of progress in the investigation, she rents three abandoned billboards outside her hometown, which in sequence read: "Raped while dying", "And still no arrests", and "How come, Chief Willoughby?". </P>

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