Jeffrey Wright
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison
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Dec 22, 2023 · 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 a 2023 American black 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 ...
- Cristina Dunlap
- Cord Jefferson
- Cord Jefferson
Apr 12, 2024. 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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- Cord Jefferson
- R
- Jeffrey Wright
Dec 15, 2023 · American Fiction. Peyton Robinson December 15, 2023. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The summer of 2020 reignited the promotion and consumption of antiracist readings. It was a year when the public deemed it “especially important” to read the work of Black authors, especially, the work of Black authors discussing Black plight.
Mar 10, 2024 · What is American Fiction about? Based on Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure, American Fiction follows the professional conundrums of an erudite author named Thelonious “Monk” Ellison.
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...
