![]() ![]() The boys, dubbing themselves “Minna Men,” have worked for Frank for close to 20 years. Frank Minna, a charismatic hood who ran a moving service that fronted for a small-time detective agency, recruited Lionel, along with three other boys from the home, to serve as minions doing gofer jobs: surveillance, stakeouts, and client shadowing. Because of his odd speech habits and peculiar tics, such as touching people and even kissing them (he will not understand Tourette’s syndrome for some time), Lionel made few friends. Lionel Essrog, an orphan, grew up in a boys’ home in Brooklyn. ![]() ![]() Although the movie generated modest critical enthusiasm, aficionados of the novel pointed to several significant alterations the movie took with the original storyline, most notably moving the era from the late 1990s to the 1950s and introducing an entirely new storyline about a Harlem activist and a corrupt city planner. In 2019, 20 years after its publication, Motherless Brooklyn was released as a film directed by Oscar-nominated actor Edward Norton, who played Lionel Essrog. Motherless Brooklyn was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Gold Dagger, awarded annually in the UK for the best crime novel of the year. ![]()
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