American Fiction
Regular $15/ $11 Matinee
Member $11/ $6 Matinee
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Director
Cord JeffersonProducer
Cord Jefferson, Jermaine Johnson, Nikos Karamigios, Ben LeClairCast
Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis RossCountry
USARuntime
117 minRating
RAccessibility
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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.
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