Motherless Brooklyn

2019
4.3
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Title: Motherless Brooklyn

Original Title: Motherless Brooklyn

Year: 2019

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: December 06 2019
  • United States: November 01 2019

Plot

'Motherless Brooklyn' takes us to the New York of the fifties, where Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton), a withdrawn private detective who suffers from Tourettes syndrome (a syndrome characterised by the manifestation of multiple tics, both physical and vocal), will have to resolve one of the most importante murders of his professional career: that of his mentor and only friend Frank Minna (Bruce Willis). Armed only with a few clues and his obsessive mentality, this detective manages to unravel the best kept secrets about the fate of New York. Passing through gin-soaked jazz clubs in Harlem, the slums of Brooklyn and, finally, the golden halls of the powerful businesses in New York, Lionel fights the most dangerous and corrupt man in the city with all that he's got to honor his friend and save the woman who might be his own salvation.

The film is stars, and is also written and directed by, Edward Norton ('Birdman', 'American History X' and 'Primal Fear'). Joining the cast are Bruce Willis ('Die Hard', 'Pulp Fiction'), Willem Dafoe ('Spider-Man', 'The Florida Project'), Leslie Mann ('Knocked Up', 'The Other Woman'), Alec Baldwin ('The Departed', 'It's Complicated') and Gugu Mbatha-Raw ('The Beauty and the Beast'), Bobby Cannavale ('The Irishman', 'Jumanji'), Cherry Jones and Michael Kenneth Williams.

Awards

  • 2020 Golden Globes: 1 0

Cast

Director:

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Trivia

Almost nothing

Edward Norton said it took 45 days to shoot the entire movie.

Real or fiction

Alec Baldwin's character Moses Randolph is based on real life city planner Robert Moses. Moses is largely to blame for the Brooklyn Dodgers leaving Brooklyn for los Angeles. The dodgers leaving Brooklyn is mentioned once in the movie on the radio and hinted at later when Randolph mentions a baseball team playing where he says.

David Lynch

According to the book "Room to Dream", when the book was published, David Lynch eas offered the possibility of producing or directing it. Finally, he did not enter the project.

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