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American Fiction

20231h 57mComedy · Drama
directed by Cord Jefferson

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

5.2 / 10 Compare with…14 stills

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My score
5.2 / 10
TMDB
7.3 / 10
1,367 votes
IMDb
7.5 / 10
131,163 votes
Metacritic
81 / 100
Rotten Tomatoes
93%

The scorecard 5.2 / 10

Content 2.4 Form 2.8
CONTENT · 2.4 Originality3Character2Continuity3Suspense1Message3FORM · 2.8 Acting4Cinematography2Sound2Directing3Design3Overall5.2 / 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.

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

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