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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 ...
Dec 22, 2023 · American Fiction: Directed by Cord Jefferson. 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.
AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes.
Dec 15, 2023 · Director Cord Jefferson, in his feature debut, “American Fiction” (based on Percival Everett ’s novel, Erasure ), unpacks the qualifying characteristics and limitations of mass market white interest in Black stories. Thelonious “Monk” Ellison ( Jeffrey Wright) is an author and college professor.
Oct 16, 2023 · Watch the official trailer for #AmericanFiction, starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown. From Writer/Director Cord Jefferson.
Mar 10, 2024 · Amazon MGM Studios wins big with ‘American Fiction’ at the 2024 Academy Awards—now streaming on Prime Video. Screenwriter and director Cord Jefferson took home his first Academy Award for 'American Fiction.'. Here are the plot details and streaming options. Life is better than fiction for Cord Jefferson.
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...
AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes.
Dec 18, 2023 · Watch the new trailer for what critics are calling “the Best Picture of the Year!” #AmericanFiction is now playing in select theaters. Additional cities opening this Friday.
Dec 22, 2023 · In American Fiction, a Black writer who “doesn’t see race” pens a race novel Jeffrey Wright gives a career-crowning performance in this wry and surprisingly warm-hearted race satire.
