Motherless Brooklyn (2019) movie poster

Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

ThumbScore
👍 61%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 62%
DramaThriller

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Director
Edward Norton
Runtime
2h 25m
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.7/10 (1,566 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
65%
Metacritic
60

Cast

Edward Norton as Lionel Essrog · 77% avg
Bruce Willis as Frank Minna · 69% avg
Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Laura Rose · 64% avg
Alec Baldwin as Moses Randolph · 69% avg
Willem Dafoe as Paul Randolph · 71% avg
Bobby Cannavale as Tony Vermonte · 69% avg
Cherry Jones as Gabby Horowitz · 70% avg
Michael Kenneth Williams as Trumpet Man · 66% avg

Is Motherless Brooklyn good?

It's divisive. Only 61% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 62%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#2925 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#236 / 289 · 2019

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

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⬆ 6,213💬 430 comments
NYC firefighter dies battling blaze on set of Bruce Willis, Edward Norton film 'Motherless Brooklyn'
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Top comment: "The comments on there are really confusing. They're like...blaming liberals for the fire? Also..."
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Box Office Week - Terminator: Dark Fate takes #1 with an awful $29M on a $185M+ budget. Harriet opens solid at #4 with $12M. Motherless Brooklyn bombs at #9 with $3.6M. Arctic Dogs has the worst opening for a film in over 2,8000 theaters at #10 with $3.1M.
|*Rank*|*Title*|*Domestic Gross (Weekend)*|*Worldwide Gross (Cume)*|*Week #*|*Percentage Change*|*Budget*| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |1|Terminator: Dark... Read on Reddit →
Top comment: "Will studios now finally realise that the Terminator franchise is well past it's sell by date or..."
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First Image of Willem Dafoe & Edward Norton in 1950s Crime-Thriller 'Motherless Brooklyn' - Also Starring Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Michael Kenneth Williams, Bobby Cannavale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Leslia Mann, and Ethan Suplee
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Top comment: "“I’m something of a detective myself. You know!”"
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