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Winner of the 2024 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, this acclaimed satire stars Jeffrey Wright as a novelist who hilariously confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to stereotypes.
2024 Academy Award Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay
American Fiction is Cord Jefferson's hilarious, critically acclaimed directorial debut, which confronts our contemporary culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Academy Award nominee Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist and academic 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.
The Daily Beast calls American Fiction "a cinematic stick of dynamite. It’s by turns laugh-out-loud funny and quietly poignant while grounded by a deeply sympathetic turn, possibly his best yet, from Jeffrey Wright." NPR calls it "an excellent American satire about how we see each other -- and how we shouldn’t. Jefferson overlays the story’s most biting wit with layers of warmth, sadness and discovery that make this movie far more than the sum of its parts."
Directed by Cord Jefferson. Starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Sterling K. Brown, Issa Rae, and Leslie Uggams.
Runtime: 117 minutes | Rated R
