American Fiction movie poster courtesy of Wikipedia
American Fiction is a movie directed by Cord Jefferson, who also wrote the screenplay, which is based on the book Erasure by Percival Everett.
Per the MGM website,
"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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