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Oscar winner ‘Three Billboards’ at LPCA this weekend

LAKE PLACID – The Adirondack Film Society Screening Series at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts presents “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

The darkly comedic tour de force garnered 7 Oscar nominations including Best Motion Picture and won Oscars for Best Actress “Frances McDormand” and Best Supporting Actor Sam Rockwell.

The film will be screened at 7 p.m. Friday, March 16 and Saturday, March 17.

Tickets are $10 and are available by calling the LPCA Box Office at 518-523-2512 or online at www.lakeplacidarts.org.

After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, commissioning three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), the town’s revered chief of police. When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell) — an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence — gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing’s law enforcement is only exacerbated.

In addition to McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Rockwell, the stellar cast features John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Zeljko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters and Samara Weaving.

What the critics are saying:

“Martin McDonagh has freighted Three Billboards with a tragedy that allows the performers – primarily Frances McDormand – to play to their range.” — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

“As we watch this wonderful movie we’re able to see who Mildred and all the others really are, and, better still, who they may become.” — Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

The AFS Screening Series at LPCA continues April 27-28, with “In Between,” a new film from Israel by Palestinian filmmaker Maysaloun Hamoud making her directorial debut.

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