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Motherless Brooklyn

January 5, 2017

Director Edward Norton

Genre Crime | Drama

Cast Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe

Rating R

Release Date November 1st, 2019

“A lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette’s syndrome tries to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.”

Directed by actor Edward Norton, Motherless Brooklyn is set against the backdrop of 1950s New York, and follows Lionel Essrog, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome, as he ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna. Check out the official trailer below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, Motherless Brooklyn:

  • First credited writing by Edward Norton although Norton did some uncredited writing on Fight Club (1999), Frida (2002), The Painted Veil (2006) and The Incredible Hulk (2008).

  • Edward Norton's second turn in the directors chair after directing Keeping The Faith (2000).

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