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American Fiction

Once you go full black, you ain't never going back!

2023 · R · 1h 57m

Directed by Cord Jefferson

7.2

TMDB audience score
1,483 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Jeffrey Wright
    Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison

  • John Ortiz
    Arthur

  • Erika Alexander
    Coraline

  • Leslie Uggams
    Agnes Ellison

  • Sterling K. Brown
    Clifford Ellison

  • Skyler Wright
    Brittany

  • John Ales
    Leo

  • Patrick Fischler
    Mandel

  • Carmen Cusack
    Gilda

  • Joseph Marrella
    Matthew Wilson

  • Stephen Burrell
    Jordan Phillips

  • Issa Rae
    Sintara Golden

  • Nicole Kempskie
    Sintara's Moderator

  • Becki Dennis
    Clinic Receptionist

  • Tracee Ellis Ross
    Lisa Ellison

  • Myra Lucretia Taylor
    Lorraine

  • Ryan Richard Doyle
    Ned

  • Kate Avallone
    Woman on Patio