American Fiction (2023)

Directed by

Cord Jefferson

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

R

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 1,374 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Black novelist-professor, fed up with how publishers only want cliched Black stories, writes a deliberately ridiculous parody under a pen name. To his surprise and dismay, the book is hailed as a serious masterpiece and becomes a huge success.

satiricalfrustratedthoughtfulironicwryprovocativemiddlebrow

What happens

American Fiction is a 2023 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cord Jefferson in his feature directorial debut. Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, it follows a frustrated African-American novelist-professor who writes an outlandish satire of stereotypical "black" books, only for it to be mistaken for serious literature and published to high sales and critical praise. The film stars Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody and Keith David. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2023, where it won the People's Choice Award. It received a limited theatrical release by Amazon MGM Studios on December 15, 2023, with an expansion on December 22, 2023. The film grossed $23 million and received numerous accolades. It was named one of the top 10 films of 2023 by the American Film Institute. It also received five nominations at the 96th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Wright, with Jefferson winning Best Adapted Screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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