Where to watch Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is available to stream in US on HBO Max, YouTube TV and HBO. It can also be rented or bought from AppleTV and Amazon.
After seven months without progress in her daughter’s murder case, a grieving mother places three provocative signs at the town’s entrance, challenging local law enforcement. Her public protest intensifies tensions among residents, police officers, and families, creating a volatile mix of anger, grief, dark humor, and difficult moral questions.
Cast: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Željko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, Samara Weaving, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Kerry Condon
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Trivia & production notes
- Martin McDonagh was inspired to write the film after seeing real billboards in Texas around 1998 that accused a man of murder and criticized police inaction in the case, which belonged to James Fulton regarding his daughter Kathy Page who was killed in 1991.
- McDonagh spent approximately ten years developing the script before deciding to make the protagonist's mother—rather than the victim's father—the character putting up the billboards.
- Frances McDormand was written the role of Mildred specifically, though she initially resisted taking it because she felt too old for the part as written.
- Sam Rockwell's character Dixon was written expressly for him by McDonagh.
- McDormand drew inspiration from John Wayne's Western characters to portray Mildred, while Rockwell looked to Lee Marvin's performance in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance to create a character opposite to hers.
- Principal photography took place over 33 days beginning May 2, 2016, in Sylva, North Carolina.
- The three billboards were constructed by Allison Outdoor Advertising and placed in a pasture near Black Mountain, North Carolina, then covered when not actively filming because locals found them disturbing.
- After production ended, the billboards were purchased and dismantled, with the wood repurposed for a roof in Tennessee, rendering the original messages illegible.
- Carter Burwell composed the film's score, marking his third collaboration with director McDonagh after scoring In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths.
- The film premiered in competition at the Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2017, before receiving a limited U.S. release on November 10, 2017.
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