American Fiction

Writer-director Cord Jefferson’s debut film is part blistering satire about the shallowness of diversity politics in cultural industries, part enrapturing character study and family drama.

Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) with his brother Cliff (Sterling K. Brown, to his left), and girlfriend Coraline (Erika Alexander) in American Fiction

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