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Once you go full black, you ain't never going back!

American Fiction

7.32023 · 1h 57m · EN

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A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

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Jeffrey Wright

Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison

John Ortiz

Arthur

Erika Alexander

Coraline

Leslie Uggams

Agnes Ellison

Sterling K. Brown

Clifford Ellison

Skyler Wright

Brittany

John Ales

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Director: Cord Jefferson
Status: Released
Audience votes: 1,431

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