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American Fiction is a 2023 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cord Jefferson in his feature directorial debut. Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett , it follows a frustrated novelist-professor who writes an outlandish satire of stereotypical "Black" books , only for it to be mistaken for serious literature and ...
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Dec 15, 2023 · “American Fiction” is a thoughtful, although heavy-handed, film. The strength of its thesis successfully bonds the film together. And yet, there are more than a handful of moments, both comedic and dramatic, that plead for a reaction.
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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Dec 22, 2023 · Comedy Drama. 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. Director. Cord Jefferson. Writers. Cord Jefferson. Percival Everett. Stars. Jeffrey Wright. Tracee Ellis Ross. John Ortiz.
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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 ...
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Sep 10, 2023 · Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut, “American Fiction,” is a sharp comedy about racial commodification anchored by a terrific Jeffrey Wright. It won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Dec 15, 2023 · Jefferson adapts Percival Everett’s 2001 novel “Erasure” as a razor-sharp satirical comedy (★★★½ out of four; rated R; in theaters now) that ably skewers Black storytelling tropes and ...
