Motherless Brooklyn

Trivia: The final major theatrical film to feature Bruce Willis before his retirement from acting in 2022 due to Frontotemporal dementia. (While he starred in several films after, they were primarily direct-to-video and streaming films with very limited theatrical releases).

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Factual error: Through the last third of the movie Edward Norton has a cut above his left eye. It is closed with an adhesive strip. It wasn't until 1962 that 3M™ Steri-Strip™ Skin Closures were introduced to the health care world. A stitch or two would have been less distracting, and would have been better suited to the gritty feel that the movie was trying to achieve.

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Answer: In the movie, there's a bar called "Formosa Lounge." In real life, "Formosa" was the name Portugal gave to Taiwan.

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