MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN

Director: Edward Norton
Cast: Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Kenneth Williams, Leslie Mann, Willem Dafoe
Directed by and starring Oscar Nominated Edward Norton and adapted from Jonathan Lethem’s prizewinning novel, Motherless Brooklyn sees a detective follow a trail of crime from the mean streets to the corrupt upper echelons of 1950s New York.
Set against the backdrop of 1950s New York, Motherless Brooklyn follows Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton), a lonely private detective with Tourette’s Syndrome, as he ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna (Bruce Willis). Armed only with a few clues and the powerful engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely-guarded secrets that hold the fate of the whole city in the balance. In a mystery that carries him from gin-soaked jazz clubs in Harlem to the hard-edged slums of Brooklyn and, finally, into the gilded halls of New York’s power brokers, Lionel contends with thugs, corruption and the most dangerous man in the city to honour his friend and save the woman who might be his own salvation.