Directed by: Edward Norton
Starring: Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Edward Norton, Cherry Jones
Visible crew/equipment: When Lionel returns to the jazz bar and discovers Billy Rose has been killed (framed as a suicide), you can see two people standing in the shadows to the left of Lionel as he enters the main room where the stage is located. A man is hunched over, whilst a woman is standing still wearing what looks like a dust mask. (01:32:27)
Factual error: Alec Baldwin opens a pack of Chesterfield cigarettes and they have a filter. This is in the late 50's - Chesterfields did not have filters until 1966.
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.
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).
Lionel Essrog: Tits on a Tuesday.
Lionel Essrog: There's something going down, and it's big, and they were not happy about what he found.
Question: Who was the African-American man with Laura Rose who punched Lionel and why did he punch him?
Question: Anyone know what happened to William Lieberman and Lou by the end of the movie?
Question: What was the meaning behind the key word "for mosa"? surely Frank wasn't saying "for Moses Randolph" because it wouldn't make sense in context.
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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Answer: After Lou was hit in the head by the trumpet player, it's unclear what happened to him. Moses is supposed to kill Lieberman, so presumably he was eventually murdered.
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