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Pop Culture Happy Hour: Revenge, Redemption, And 'Three Billboards'

Martin McDonagh's darkly comic Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri follows a woman eager to get justice after an act of violence. But it also tries to confront race and domestic violence.
Sam Rockwell and Frances McDormand star in the film <em>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.</em>

One of the awards contenders that's emerging toward the end of this year is . It stars Frances McDormand as a woman

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