American Fiction

Jeffrey Wright excels as a struggling Black novelist, irascible writer Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, who dashes off a blaxploitation potboiler and hits the jackpot in Cord Jefferson’s savvy, jazzy, Oscar-nominated comedy drama. Wright who is fed up with the establishment profiting from Black Entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.