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A scathingly hilarious satire about an African American writer facing an industry that reduces Black storytelling to trauma and poverty narratives.
Jeffery Wright plays Thelonious “Monk” Ellison who is constantly being told by his agent that his intellectual novels just don’t sell. Cynically, under a pseudonym, he puts together a parody of “ghetto” fiction, teeming with clichés about gangbangers, drug dealers and pimps. To his consternation, it’s a huge success.
Adapted from the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, and balancing Monk’s personal life against the gags, this is an assured debut feature by TV writer Jefferson (Succession, Master of None) with a pitch-perfect cast led by Wright.
DIRECTOR: Cord Jefferson
STARRING: Jeffrey White, Sterling K Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross
US
2023
1 HOUR 57 MINUTES
ENGLISH
AD Audio Description available
DS Descriptive Subtitles: Thursday 14th March, 2pm
People’s Choice Award, Toronto International Film Festival 2023
