Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor (Jeffrey Wright)
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.
“American Fiction is a wonderfully tart comic drama and Wright is marvellous as its grumpy anti-hero” – Irish Independent
“A funny, touching portrait of a man attempting to fine-tune his relationship with the world.” – The Atlantic
