SCREENING & DISCUSSION

Motherless Brooklyn

October 7, 2019

A special screening of Motherless Brooklyn, co-hosted with Warner Bros. Entertainment, marks the first screening in our new theater at our D.C. headquarters.

From the film’s official website:

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 honor his friend and save the woman who might be his own salvation.

Following the screening, Edward Norton — the film’s director, producer, writer, and lead actor — took part in an exclusive Q&A with Professor Yanick Lamb, Director of Media Studies at Howard University.

Learn more about Motherless Brooklyn here.

Featured photo: Motion Picture Association Chairman and CEO Charles H. Rivkin and actor/filmmaker Edward Norton attend a screening of “Motherless Brooklyn” at the MPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., October 7, 2019. (Photo credit: Joy Asico)