American Fiction
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.
= FILM FACTS =
Running Time 117 mins
Genre Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating Rated R
Starring
Jeffery Wright
Tracee Ellis Ross
John Ortiz
Erika Alexander
Leslie Uggams
Adam Brody
Issa Rae
Sterling K. Brown
Directed by
Cord Jefferson
Written by
Cord Jefferson