In 1950s New York City, Lionel Essrog works at a detective agency alongside Gilbert Coney, Danny Fantl, and Tony Vermonte. At the 77th Golden Globe Awards, the film received a nomination for Best Original Score. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for Norton's performance and the film's ideas, but criticism for its length and deviations from its source novel. It underperformed at the box office, grossing $18.5 million against a $26 million budget.
The film premiered at the 46th Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 1, 2019, by Warner Bros. Other members of the cast joined by February 2018, and principal photography began that same month. Although the book is set in contemporary times, Norton felt the plot and dialogue lent themselves more to a noir setting-moving it to the 1950s, with many added plot points inspired by The Power Broker. Along with Norton, the film also stars Bruce Willis (In his final theatrical film role before retirement), Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, Alec Baldwin, Ethan Suplee and Willem Dafoe.Ī passion project of Norton's ever since he had read Lethem's novel in 1999, the film took nearly twenty years to go into production. Set in 1957 New York City, the film follows a private investigator with Tourette syndrome, who is determined to solve the murder of his mentor. Motherless Brooklyn is a 2019 American neo-noir period crime film starring, written, produced, and directed by Edward Norton, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Jonathan Lethem.
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