OSCAR WINNER : AMERICAN FICTION (15) 1h 57m

Director: Cord Jefferson

Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Erika Alexander, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Adam Brody, John Ortiz, Leslie Uggams

Genre: Comedy / Drama

OSCAR WINNER: BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

“Jeffrey Wright leads a note-perfect cast as an author pandering to a white appetite for Black trauma in an impressive debut from Cord Jefferson” The Guardian

The film straddlesthe line between drama and satire to depict social commentary on microaggression and pigeonholing of Black creatives in the publishing and film industry. To tell this story, American Fiction centres around Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright), an intelligent and jaded author frustrated by the high-profit margins on Black entertainment that relies on discriminatory behaviors and tropes. But, in wanting to challenge the construction and prove his point about the bias for Black narratives that are more palatable for white audiences, he uses an alias to create a stereotypical book that accidentally gains him critical acclaim and notoriety.

Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut, American Fiction confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes.

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