Ed Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn Getting April Home Release

From the Oscar-nominated director-writer-producer-star Edward Norton (“Birdman,” “American History X,” “Primal Fear”) comes the magnetic drama Motherless Brooklyn. Inspired by Jonathan Lethem’s novel by the same name, Norton aimed to transpose Lethem’s contemporary characters into a different period and plot and gave it a distinctive atmosphere by re-setting the drama in the 1950s—a time of great change in New York City.

The film’s stellar ensemble cast includes Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, Michael Kenneth Williams, Leslie Mann , Ethan Suplee , Dallas Roberts  Josh Pais, Robert Ray Wisdom, Fisher Stevens, Alec Baldwin  and Willem Dafoe.

Music plays an important role in setting the tone and establishing the period of Motherless Brooklyn. The Golden Globe-nominated score is composed by Daniel Pemberton (“Steve Jobs,” “All the Money in the World,” “Oceans 8,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”), and features Wynton Marsalis on the trumpet. The film also features an original song written and performed by Thom Yorke.

Related: Film Review – Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton), a lonely private detective living with Tourette Syndrome, ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna (Bruce Willis). Armed only with a few clues and the engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely guarded secrets that hold the fate of New York 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.

BLU-RAY AND DVD ELEMENTS
 Blu-ray contains the following special features:

Making-Of: Edward Norton’s Methodical Process
Commentary with Director Edward Norton
Deleted Scenes

DVD contains the following special feature:
Making-Of: Edward Norton’s Methodical Process

Motherless Brooklyn will be available on Blu-ray, DVD From 13th April. Before then you can via purchase the film on Digital Download from 30th March.

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