![]() Although he apologizes for it often, Lionel’s Tourette’s is in many ways his superpower. It takes a beat to fall into step with the rhythm of “Motherless Brooklyn,” punctuated by Lionel’s twitches, obsessive habits and verbal outbursts. It’s an ambitious adaptation that expands the story, weaving a largely unknown history of Moses and his influence on the city into the story of Lionel Essrog (Norton), a Brooklyn gumshoe detective with Tourette’s syndrome. It’s a New York City of private eyes careening around the boroughs in heavy cars, Harlem jazz clubs and racial strife roiled by a housing crisis as a modern New York springs up under the hand of Moses Randolph (Alec Baldwin), an avatar for Robert Moses, the “master builder” of the city. micro-budget indie films, Norton has delivered a movie of another era: a sturdy, wordy politically minded and wholly engaging whodunit.Ībout that era: Norton transposed the time period of the novel from 1999 to 1957. In the age of blockbuster superhero entertainment vs. And while he shepherded the project, the movie business evolved in such a way that a moderately budgeted mystery with a starry cast could be seen as a gamble for a Hollywood studio. ![]() ![]() Edward Norton spent 20 years working to get his adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel “Motherless Brooklyn” to the screen, adding a few substantial, challenging and chewy elements to the oddball detective tale. ![]()
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