American Fiction

A racial comedy that will challenge you while frequently have you laughing.

A thought-provoking film that also proves to be entertaining. See it, as you will not be disappointed.

While exposing the racial prejudice in the book world, it also focuses on family life as we age. Jeffrey Wright, in an Oscar worthy performance, plays a writer and professor whose world has become boring. Forced to take a leave of absence, he leaves California to visit his family in Boston that he hasn’t seen in years.

Reeling from watching his physician sister die while having lunch, a physician brother who announces he is gay and an Alzheimer impaired mother, he is haunted by the reality that his books are not selling. Searching for a way out of Boston, he writes a nasty book entitled “Fu_k” under a pen name that describes black life in America. Posing as an ex-con in phone interviews, he is offered substantial fees by white book publishers that propels him into the heart of racial madness that he claims to despise.

While I could go on, I don’t want to spoil the story filled with great actors. Let me just say that this is a powerful film that unfortunately loses its energy with a disappointing ending. Yet it proves to be a widely inventive film that you need to see.