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 US cinemas from December 15th. A
UK/ROI release has yet to be announced but it will likely debut on Prime
Video in these parts at a later date.
Check out the trailer 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.