Rated: R ; 117; minutes in English; Directed by: Cord Jefferson
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, 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 a frustrated novelist whose 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.