Writer/director Cord Jefferson won the People's Choice
award at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival for his feature
debut American Fiction. Adapted from Percival Everett's novel 'Erasure'. the film stars Jeffrey Wright as Monk, an author frustrated with the popularity of black
stereotypes. Adopting a pseudonym he writes a novel that purposely plays
into such stereotypes.
Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam
Brody, Keith David, Issa Rae and Sterling K. Brown also star.
American Fiction is in UK/ROI cinemas from February 2nd.
Check out the new trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
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.
