Free Words & Film Showing: “American Fiction”

American Fiction*, Cord Jefferson‘s hilarious directorial debut, is a satire which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Monk is 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.

Based on the 2001 novel, Erasure by Percival L. Everett, this film stars Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Erika Alexander, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, Leslie Uggams and John Ortiz.

*This film is rated R.

This film is free to the public. The viewing begins promptly at 2:00 pm. You can watch the movie in our Hughes Building’s downstairs Edinger Community Room at 1002 N 9th St. in Stroudsburg. For further questions, you can call the Reference Desk at 570-421-0800 x. 317.