American Fiction (Orion Pictures) Starring:Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Keith David with Issa Rae and Sterling K. Brown<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Written for the Screen and Directed by: Cord Jefferson<br />Based upon the novel ‘Erasure’ by: Percival Everett<br /><br />Genres<br />Comedy/Drama<br />Rating:R for language throughout, some drug use, sexual references and brief violence<br />Directed By Cord Jefferson<br />Produced By Ben LeClair, p.g.a., Nikos Karamigios, p.g.a., Cord Jefferson, p.g.a., Jermaine Johnson, p.g.a.<br />Executive Produced By Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman, Percival Everett, Michael Bowes<br />
