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It received a limited theatrical release by Amazon MGM Studios on December 15, 2023, with an expansion on December 22, 2023. The film grossed $23 million and received numerous accolades. It was named one of the top 10 films of 2023 by the American Film Institute.
Dec 22, 2023 · Edit page. American Fiction: Directed by Cord Jefferson. With Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander. A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Cord Jefferson
- 2023-12-22
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...
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- Jeffrey Wright
Dec 15, 2023 · It carries a sensitive, important declaration in its bones: A testament to the versatility and validity of where Black art meets Black life, and a sharply pointed finger at the many institutional factors that keep it, and its creators, restrained. In theaters today. Drama. Comedy.
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Dec 14, 2023 · Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” is a cagey, cerebral dramedy about a joke that backfires on its author, a stone-faced literature professor named Thelonious Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) who...
Mar 10, 2024 · The critically lauded film from Amazon MGM Studios, starring Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Erika Alexander, bested fellow nominees Oppenheimer, Barbie, Poor Things, and The Zone of Interest in the category. American Fiction Screenwriter, Cord Jefferson.
