American Fiction Starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, and Erika Alexander
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.
CAST:
Jeffery Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, with Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:
Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman, Percival Everett
PRODUCED BY:
Ben LeClair, p.g.a., Nikos Karamigios, p.g.a., Cord Jefferson, p.g.a., Jermain Johnson, p.g.a.
BASED UPON THE NOVEL ‘ERASURE’ BY:
Percival Everett
WRITTEN FOR THE SCREEN AND DIRECTED BY:
Cord Jefferson
