American Fiction at Sayre Theatre

American Fiction

117 mins | Rated R (for language throughout, some drug use, sexual references and brief violence. )

Directed by Cord Jefferson

Starring Jeffrey Wright, Leslie Uggams, John Ortiz, Sterling K. Brown, Adam Brody, Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross, 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.

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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

117 mins | Rated R (for language throughout, some drug use, sexual references and brief violence. ) | Comedy

Directed by Cord Jefferson | Starring Jeffrey Wright, Leslie Uggams, John Ortiz, Sterling K. Brown, Adam Brody, Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross, 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.