

Mildred’s latest inspiration in agitation involves renting the eponymous roadside billboard space and putting up a sequence of Burma Shave–style ads that drop a great, big ol’ j’accuse in the lap of the town sheriff-something that doesn’t sit well with the local yokels, for Sheriff Willoughby is a respected man, played by Woody Harrelson at his most folksy-amiable, and moreover is in his final months, dying of inoperable cancer.

In her free time, however, Mildred likes to needle the Ebbing police department about their failure to find the killer of her daughter, who some months back was discovered charred and dead after a brutal rape.
