GENRE: Comedy / Drama
RATING: R
RUNNING TIME: 1:57
RELEASE DATE: January 11, 2024
STARRING: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Erika Alexander
DIRECTOR: Cord Jefferson
WRITER(S): Cord Jefferson, Percival Everett
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: 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. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.