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AMERICAN FICTION New Movie Trailer - Plot 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.



directed by Cord Jefferson

starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Keith David, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown

release date December 15, 2023 (in theaters)
Transcript
00:00 [MUSIC]
00:08 Are those human remains?
00:09 Do you guys have a permit for that?
00:10 Shut the fuck up, Philip.
00:12 Cliff, you don't talk to me like that.
00:14 You want me to beat your ass?
00:15 I'm just-
00:15 Fuck out of here, Philip.
00:16 I will eat your sweater vest for dinner.
00:18 Always been a fucking douche.
00:20 [MUSIC]
00:21 Listen, Monk, you need some time off.
00:23 Why don't you go back and spend a little more time with your family?
00:25 You know that all successful writers are tormented by their families.
00:29 You look fat.
00:30 Okay.
00:30 [MUSIC]
00:32 Welcome home, baby!
00:34 How's the fuck?
00:34 I don't feel like much of a writer lately.
00:36 Your books change people's lives.
00:37 And something I've written haven't changed your life?
00:39 Absolutely.
00:40 My dining room table was wobbly as hell.
00:42 Oh my god.
00:43 Before your last book came out.
00:45 It was like perfect.
00:46 [MUSIC]
00:48 How's your brother doing?
00:50 I still live in Tucson.
00:51 What's wrong with Tucson?
00:52 There's one gay bar and it's full of college kids.
00:54 One of them asked me if I was Tyler Perry.
00:56 I mean, Tyler Perry lives in Atlanta, right?
00:58 Fuck you.
00:59 [MUSIC]
01:01 Any news?
01:02 Editors, they want a black book.
01:03 They have one.
01:04 I'm black and it's my book.
01:06 Look at what they expect us to write.
01:07 Would you read an excerpt?
01:09 Yo, Sheronda, where you be going in a hurry like that?
01:12 If you gots to know, I was going to the pharmacy.
01:15 [MUSIC]
01:20 If they want stereotypes, I'll give them one.
01:23 [MUSIC]
01:25 What is this?
01:26 Deadbeat Dance, Rappers, Crack, that's black, right?
01:29 Nobody's going to publish this.
01:30 Just want to rub their noses in it.
01:32 We love it.
01:33 What?
01:33 It is very, uh...
01:35 Black?
01:36 Yes, that's it.
01:37 I'm happy you said it and not me.
01:39 [MUSIC]
01:41 I wrote it as a joke.
01:42 People want to love you, Monk.
01:43 You should let them love all of you.
01:45 [MUSIC]
01:52 We sold the movie rights.
01:53 Yes!
01:54 We think it is going to be a bestseller.
01:55 I'm sure white people on the Hamptons will delight in it.
01:59 Yeah, we will.
02:00 They, they, we...
02:02 It's going to be huge.
02:03 [MUSIC]
02:05 Can you stick around and help with Mother?
02:06 I got to get home.
02:07 It's eight in the morning.
02:09 I'm not flying the fucking plane, Mom.
02:11 [MUSIC]