A Self-Righteous Coot Goes on a Rampage!

Rating: 4/10 (2 February 2018)

WARNING SPOILERS!
The Oxford Dictionary defines "coot" as; A stupid or eccentric person, typically an old man.
(However, in this film, the "coot" is played by a woman).
This movie is designed to make a nasty, self-righteous coot, seem like a misunderstood, leftist darling, because she "stands up against the man"; all in the hopes of winning an Oscar.
To put the events in linear order; Mildred (the nasty, self-righteous coot) is an argumentative, cold, nasty, self-righteous coot. Her husband knows this and leaves her for another woman. Her daughter wants to go and live with her father because she thinks Mildred is a coot but he refuses because he is a decent person and he knows it will hurt the coot, even though she really is a nasty coot. Her son, who probably knows her best, refers to her as a coot many times throughout the film.
Anyway, one night the coot's daughter wants to go to a friend's house for a party and asks the coot if she can borrow the car. The coot refuses to let her borrow the car or even drive her to the party resulting in an argument where the coot's last words to her daughter are, "I hope you get raped along the way!" Shortly afterwards, just down the road, the daughter does get raped and murdered along the way.
The Police launch a full investigation, but unfortunately because the DNA doesn't match anyone on file throughout the entire country, and because there were no witnesses or fingerprints any other evidence at all, they aren't able to make any arrests. After a few months, instead of contacting the Police Department to ask about any updates, the coot rents three billboards and creates some signs which basically call the Police Chief lazy and incompetent because he hasn't arrested the coot's daughter's killer.
The Police Chief, who is actually a decent, intelligent and hard-working person, meets with the coot and explains the entire investigation to her once again but she refuses to accept what he has to say. The Police Chief also explains that he has cancer and only has a few months to live. Mildred (the nasty coot) explains that she already knew this but because she is such a coot, she refuses to take down the billboards.
The local head of the Church, visits the coot and explains to her that the Police Chief is a decent, hardworking person and that she should take down the signs because he has cancer and these billboards are giving him unnecessary stress. She basically calls the priest a gay pedophile and tells him to "f* off out of her house!"
The coot randomly goes to the dentist at some point. While she's there, the dentist starts to talk about what a decent man the Police Chief really is, when the coot grabs his dentistry drill and jams it through his fingernail, leaving him screaming on the floor.
Also, she drops her son off at school and one of the children throw a drink in a paper cup at her car, presumably because they don't like her signs on the billboards. The coot emerges from her car in a rage and begins kicking the children in their groins until they confess who threw the paper cup.
Her husband, who is also distraught about his daughter's death and also quite angry about the signs which the coot has created, gets drunk one night and goes and burns down the three billboards. The coot jumps to conclusions and assumes that it was the local Police who burnt them down, so she goes and burns down the entire Police Department with some home-made petrol bombs. While doing so she gives a man horrific burns and almost kills him.
After the coot finds out that it was actually her husband who burnt down the billboards, she doesn't turn herself in to the authorities and admit that she's an arsonist, a criminal and a complete coot but still continues on her leftist, self-righteous path of cootishness.
A local man, who happens to be a dwarf, witnesses the coot burning down the Police Department but he foolishly offers her an alibi so that she doesn't get arrested. He then asks her out on a date which the coot agrees to. He takes her to a nice restaurant but during the date, she is a compete coot. She is so rude and cold and distant, stating that she was 'forced' to come along to dinner with a dwarf. This man, who is also a kind and decent person, realizes what a complete and utter coot she really is, and walks out of the restaurant, leaving her to sit there and wallow in all her self-righteous cootiness.
The movie ends without any real conclusion as the coot is on her way to potentially murder a man who she thinks might have raped someone, somewhere else, at some other time. What a coot of a movie.