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American Fiction

Runtime
1hr 57mins
Directed by
Cord Jefferson
Featuring
Jeffrey Wright,
Tracee Ellis Ross,
Issa Rae,
Sterling K. Brown

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American Fiction is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes.

Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

Winner of the People's Choice Award at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.

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American Fiction with Percival Everett

Before the film Percival Everett, author of Erasure the book American Fiction is based on, will discuss his oeuvre including his new novel James.  About American Fiction American Fiction is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes.

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