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Dec 12, 2023 · American Fiction is based upon Percival Everett's 2001 novel, Erasure, which Jefferson says he "devoured" in 2020. "It felt like it was a book written specifically for me," he says.
Feb 28, 2024 · "[American Fiction] is a pithy, self-aware and hypercritical satire about how mainstream (read: white) media favours racial stereotypes in storytelling over any other portrayals of blackness ...
Dec 18, 2023 · Watch the new trailer for what critics are calling “the Best Picture of the Year!” #AmericanFiction is now playing in select theaters. Additional cities open...
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Synopsis. Thelonious “Monk” Ellison’s writing career has stalled because his work isn’t deemed “Black enough.”. Monk, a writer and English professor, writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, aiming to expose the publishing world’s hypocrisies. The book’s immediate success forces him to get deeper enmeshed in his assumed ...
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.
Mar 11, 2024 · 'American Fiction' won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2024 Academy Awards, being named over other nominees Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach for 'Barbie', Christopher Nolan for 'Oppenheimer', Tony ...
Sep 9, 2023 · American Fiction is a clever and charming offering for the next generation of writers facing the same existential questions. Thelonious Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is a middle-aged Black man in the ...
