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American Fiction

American Fiction

2023
117 min
Comedy Drama

Plot Summary

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

7.3
IMDb Rating
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Ratings & Reviews

7.3
IMDb Rating

Technical Details

117 min
Runtime
2023-11-10
Release Date
Movie
Content Type
2023
Year
Genres
Comedy Drama

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User Reviews

hamfaceman

7.0/10
Recent

This movie was decent.

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7.0/10
Recent

Jeffrey Wright is great in this satirical look at all things hypocritical and exploitative surrounding "blackness" in the USA. "Monk" is the short-tempered writer-cum-lecturer whose behaviour gets him put on indefinite leave by his university and sent to Boston! That's where his family live and where we get our first introduction to his sister "Lisa" (Tracee Ellis Ross). Now she's got the measure of her curmudgeonly brother and as they spar we start to see elements of his deeply-buried humanity ...

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r96sk

r96sk

10.0/10
Recent

Great movie! This only solidifies my desire to view more, if not all, of Jeffrey Wright's filmography, such a fantastic actor to watch. In this he is no different, he is outstanding all the way through. Not that he is by any means the only strong performer, because Sterling K. Brown is also superb. Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Uggams impress, too. There are a range of emotions to be felt throughout, the film entwines humour into events supremely well - it's much more amusing than I was exp...

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