American Fiction

Directed by Cord Jefferson
Starring Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K Brown, John Ortiz, Tracee Ellis Ross, Leslie Uggams, Erika Alexander

Nominated for 5 Oscars including best actor for Jeffery Wright, American Fiction is Cord Jefferson’s wryly funny 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.