'Motherless Brooklyn' Official Trailer

The movie takes us to the New York of the fifties, where Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton), a sullen private detective who suffers from Tourette syndrome (a syndrome characteristic of the appearance 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). With only a few clues and his obsessive mind, this detective manages to unravel the best kept secrets about the fate of New York. Entering gin-soaked jazz clubs in Harlem, in the slums of Brooklyn and, finally, in the golden halls of the corridors of power in New York, Lionel fights the most dangerous and corrupt man in the city with his thugs to honor his friend and save the woman who might be his own salvation.

The film is directed, written and starring by Edward Norton ('Birdman', 'American History X' and 'Primal Fear'). The cast is completed by 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.