Dramatic Comedy

Rating: 7/10 (2 December 2017)

I saw "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri", starring Frances McDormand-Moonrise Kingdom, Aeon Flux; Woody Harrelson-War For the Planet of the Apes, Seven Psychopaths; Sam Rockwell-Poltergeist_2015, Seven Psychopaths and Abbie Cornish-Geostorm, Seven Psychopaths. This is a comical drama-or, dramatic comedy-that has good actors and a good story but a bad ending that leaves you hanging. Frances plays a woman that had a daughter that was found raped and murdered and then set on fire. She doesn't think the police chief, Woody, has done his job in finding the killer responsible. Frances decides to put a message on three billboards stating her feelings. Nothing slanderous or untrue. She just poses the question of why Woody has not caught the killer, yet. Abbie plays Woody's wife and Sam is a racist deputy that lives at home with his mother. Almost all of the characters are complex, and will throw you a curve-no one is all good or all bad. Even Frances does things that are questionable and lies about things. If the ending were better, I would have given it a higher rating. It's rated "R" for violence, language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 55 minutes. I wouldn't buy it on DVD-unless the DVD has an alternate ending-but it would be a good rental.