EditMotherless Brooklyn (2019)

Lionel Essrog, en ensom privatdetektiv, der lider af Tourettes syndrom, er opsat på at løse mysteriet om mordet på hans mentor, og eneste ven, Frank Minna. Bevæbnet med kun få spor, og sit neurotiske sind, afslører Lionel en række tæt bevarede hemmeligheder, der er afgørende for New Yorks skæbne. Hans søgen efter sandheden tager ham fra stemningsfyldte jazzklubber i Harlem til de hårde slumkvarterer i Brooklyn og sidst, men ikke mindst, til de forgyldte rum, som New Yorks magtfulde kerne begår sig i, og undervejs må Lionel kæmpe mod banditter, korruption og den farligste mand i byen samt redde kvinden, der måske kan blive hans egen redning.

Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton) is not an ordinary private investigator. He is struggling with Tourette Syndrome, which means that the poor guy has a neurological disease hat makes him look so weird by involuntary eye blinking, coughing, throat clearing, sniffing, and making sudden facial movements. His mentor and only friend Frank Minna (Bruce Willis) helps Lionel turn his weakness into a strength and use it for good. Unfortunately, our man’s condition causes Frank’s death. Eager to solve the mystery of that murder, Lionel is left to rely on very few clues, small pieces of a puzzle that doesn’t look connected. It is the 1950s and from Harlem to Brooklyn, Lionel goes around New York to learn one thing - don’t cross path with the most powerful man in the city.