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CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
On-Air Film Review: ‘American Fiction’ Generates Nom de Plumage
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 22, 2023 - 8:45pm
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”American Fiction” is in theaters on December 22nd. Featuring the voices of Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Sterling K. Brown, Issa Rae and Leslie Uggams. Screenplay adapted and directed by Cord Jefferson. Rated “R”
CLICK HERE for Patrick McDonald’s on-air review of “American Fiction”
American Fiction
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CLICK HERE for Patrick McDonald’s on-air review of “American Fiction”
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CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on December 21st, 2023, reviewing “American Fiction,” the directorial debut of Cord Jefferson, who also adapted the screenplay. In theaters December 21st, 2023.
 Rating: 4.0/5.0 |
Jeffrey Wright is Monk Ellison, a down on his heels black novelist whose publisher has just rejected his latest effort. When family issues start to weigh him down, including a mother (Leslie Uggams) who is suffering from dementia and brother Cliff (Sterling K. Brown) who is just coming out as gay, he needs a source of income quickly. Noting the success of urban black street language books, he creates a similar work in one drunken night. In a series of events the book takes off as a best seller, and he has to maintain the charade, including a pen name that he has to maintain as a real person. What price is success?
CLICK HERE for Patrick McDonald’s on-air review of “American Fiction”American Fiction
Photo credit: MGM
CLICK HERE for Patrick McDonald’s on-air review of “American Fiction”
