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American Fiction (2023)

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American Fiction
R for language throughout, some drug use, sexual references and brief violence
Comedy
Drama

Release Date
December 15, 2023
Main Genre
Comedy
Production Company
T-Street / Almost Infinite / 3 Arts Entertainment
Distributor(s)
Orion Pictures , MRC Film

Summary

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.

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