American Fiction
Once you go full black, you ain't never going back!
American Fiction (2023)
Timing:
1:57 (117 min)
7.269/10
1295
1295
7.28/10
19880
19880
7.5/10
133000
133000
Country
Production
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Budget
$10 000 000
Revenue
$22 483 370
Director
Actors
Jeffrey Wright, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Sterling K. Brown, Skyler Wright, John Ales, Patrick Fischler, Carmen Cusack, Joseph Marrella
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson, Jermaine Johnson, Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman, Michael Bowes, Percival Everett
Operator
Cristina Dunlap
Composer
Artist
Audition
Jennifer Euston
Editing
Hilda Rasula, Jill Sacco
All team (194)
All team (194)
Short description
Thelonious “Monk” Ellison's writing career has stalled because his work isn’t deemed “Black enough.” Monk, a writer and English professor, writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, aiming to expose the publishing world's hypocrisies. The book’s immediate success forces him to get deeper enmeshed in his assumed identity and challenges his closely-held worldviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- Monk, as portrayed by Jeffrey Wright, is examining a photograph of the so-called “doll test” (a series of experiments conducted by psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark to study the impact of segregation on African American children). This photograph was once used in legal proceedings (the case of *Brown v. Board of Education*), which put an end to segregation in schools. The photograph was taken by Gordon Parks, one of the most celebrated photographers of the 20th century and one of the first Black photojournalists hired by predominantly “white” publications such as Life Magazine and Glamour.
- Monk's pseudonym – Stagg R. Lee – is a reference to a folk song from the early 20th century performed by many singers. The song's plot is based on real events. It concerns the murder committed in 1895 by a man named Lee Shelton, a pimp from St. Louis nicknamed “Stagg” (or “Stack-O-Lee,” or “Stagger Lee”). The song was very popular, which led to a stereotype about the masculinity of Black men and their propensity for crime.
- After finishing filming on the sixth season of the melodrama *This Is Us*, Sterling K. Brown (who played Clifford) was looking for an opportunity to play someone who was the complete opposite of the noble character he had embodied on screen in the television series. Brown immediately agreed to work with Cord Jefferson and even stated that the film's script (Jefferson was one of the authors) was the best he had ever read.
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