Friday Film

American Fiction

Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a Black author/professor, hasn’t had a novel published in a long while because he refuses to write the stereotypical fiction that white publishers want.

Frustrated, he takes on a fake identity, writes a book as a joke that he thinks is dreadful, and to his surprise it becomes a huge success.

Starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown. Directed by Cord Jefferson, who won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

2023 -- 117 minutes -- Rated R for language throughout, some drug use, sexual references, and brief violence -- Comedy

Find American Fiction in the library catalog.

Find Erasure, the novel the movie was based on, in the library catalog.

Watch the trailer for American Fiction.

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