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M artin McDonagh rebounds from the cheeky aimlessness of Seven Psychopaths with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the finest balance yet of his bleak sense of humor and offbeat. The film is the finest balance yet of Martin McDonagh’s bleak sense of humor and offbeat moral sincerity.

These particular billboards highlighted the incompetence of police work and deeply affected McDonagh so much that those images "stayed in my mind kept gnawing at me" This incident, combined with his desire to create strong female characters, inspired him to write the story for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. While traveling through the Southern United States in around 1998, Martin McDonagh came across a couple of accusatory billboards concerning the 1991 unsolved homicide of Kathy Page by her distraught father in Vidor, Texas.When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon ( Sam Rockwell) - an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence - gets involved, the battle is only exacerbated. After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes ( Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby ( Woody Harrelson), the town's revered chief of police.