Film· 2023· Comedy

American Fiction

by Cord Jefferson

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Erasure

Book · 2001

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Cord Jefferson's film is based on Percival Everett's 2001 novel Erasure, about a novelist who writes a parody of a "Black" bestseller under a pseudonym.

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American Fiction

Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, it follows a frustrated African-American novelist-professor who writes an outlandish satire of stereotypical "black" books, only for it to be mistaken for serious literature and published to high sales and critical praise. The film stars Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody and Keith David.

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