American Fiction
- Comedy
- Drama
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.
- Directed by
- Cord Jefferson
- Written by
- Cord Jefferson
- Based on
- Percival Everett
Cast
Jeffrey Wright
John Ortiz
Erika Alexander
Leslie Uggams- Sterling K. Brown
- Skyler Wright
John Ales
Patrick Fischler- Carmen Cusack
- Joseph Marrella
- Stephen Burrell
Issa Rae
Keywords
- bold
- dark comedy
- lgbt
- inspirational
- assertive
- provocative
- audacious
- satire
- dysfunctional family
- family drama
- complex
- mother son relationship
- sibling relationship
- admiring
- thoughtful
- alzheimer's disease
- empathetic
- dramedy
- boston, massachusetts
- complicated
- writing
- serious
- dignified
- race politics
- instructive
- racial stereotype
- race relations
- publishing
- pseudonym
- black stories