N’Style Atlanta Uncut Executive Producers Arturo Ayers Jr. and Carmen Simmons attended the Atlanta private screening of “American Fiction” at the Regal Cinemas Atlantic Station.
Written for the screen and directed by Cord Jefferson Based upon the novel ‘Erasure’ by Percival Everett starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Keith David, with Issa Rae and Sterling K. Brown.
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.
Written for the Screen and Directed by: Cord Jefferson
Based upon the novel ‘Erasure’ by: Percival Everett
Produced by: Ben LeClair, p.g.a., Nikos Karamigios, p.g.a., Cord Jefferson, p.g.a., Jermaine Johnson, p.g.a.
Executive Producers: Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman, Percival Everett, Michael Bowes
Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Keith David, with Issa Rae and Sterling K. Brown
Rated: R for language throughout, some drug use, sexual references and brief violence
