Set against the backdrop of 1950s New York, Motherless Brooklyn 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.
Motherless Brooklyn is a 2019 American crime film written, produced and directed by Edward Norton, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Jonathan Lethem. Norton also stars in the film, along with Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, with Alec Baldwin and Willem Dafoe.