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    <i>Three Billboards</i>—Beyond Ebbing, Missouri

    The Oscar-nominated crime drama has inspired activists around the world to put up massive signs to call attention to social issues.
    by Annabelle Timsit Mar 03, 2018 5 minutes
    Source: Fox Searchlight Pictures

    This story contains plot spoilers for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

    In the fictional town of Ebbing, Missouri, it seems like everyone—the town priest, the kids at the local high school—is trying to convince Mildred Hayes to take her billboards down. The 2017 crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri centers around the large red signs that Mildred (Frances McDormand) puts up along the road near her home, in order to call out the town’s police chief for not catching the man who raped and killed her daughter, Angela.

    The billboards, which read “Raped While Dying”; “And Still No Arrests?”; “How Come, Chief Willoughby?,” are extremely divisive in the small Midwestern community. While many in Ebbing empathize with Mildred’s grief, they don’t support her blaming the police chief (who, viewers later find out, is dying of cancer) in such a public

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