Orion Pictures has released first-look images from writer/director Cord Jefferson’s new film American Fiction.
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.
![](https://cinemanerdz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/F_03320_R-300x200.jpg "Erika Alexander stars as Coraline and Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison in writer/director Cord Jefferson's AMERICAN FICTION. An Orion Pictures Release. Photo credit: Claire Folger. © 2023 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.")
![](https://cinemanerdz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/F_03452_R-300x200.jpg "Jeffrey Wright stars as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison in writer/director Cord Jefferson's AMERICAN FICTION. An Orion Pictures Release. Photo credit: Claire Folger. © 2023 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.")
ABOUT THE FILM
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown
- Director: Cord Jefferson
- Screenplay: Cord Jefferson
- Producer: Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson, Jermaine Johnson
AMERICAN FICTION is in Select Theaters
November 3 and Expanding November 17!