American Fiction Movie Clip - Bookstore
American Fiction Movie Clip - Bookstore
US Release Date: December 15, 2023
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross
Director : Cord Jefferson
Synopsis: 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.
US Release Date: December 15, 2023
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross
Director : Cord Jefferson
Synopsis: 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.
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00:00 Excuse me.
00:01 Uh, Ned, do you have any books
00:04 by the writer Thelonious Ellison?
00:06 ♪♪
00:09 Yeah, this way.
00:11 ♪♪
00:15 Here you go.
00:16 All right. Yeah.
00:18 Wait a minute. Why -- Why are these books here?
00:21 I'm not sure.
00:22 I would imagine that this author, Ellison, is...black.
00:27 That's me. Ellison.
00:29 Yeah.
00:30 He is me, and he and I are black.
00:34 Oh, bingo.
00:35 No bingo, Ned.
00:37 These books have nothing to do with African-American studies.
00:40 They're just literature.
00:41 The -- The blackest thing about this one is the ink.
00:45 I-I don't decide what sections the books go in,
00:48 and no one here does.
00:49 That's how chain stores work.
00:52 Right.
00:53 Ned, you don't make the rules.
00:57 [Sighs]
00:59 I'm just gonna put them back after you leave.
01:01 Don't you dare, Ned.
01:03 Do not you dare.
01:05 [Growls]
01:06 [Silence]