{"id":5534,"date":"2024-02-11T15:06:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T14:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2024-02-11T15:06:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T14:06:47","slug":"american-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/american-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"American Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AMERICAN FICTION | Official Trailer\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i0MbLCpYJPA?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson&#8217;s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture&#8217;s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. <\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who&#8217;s fed up with the establishment profiting from &#8220;Black&#8221; entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. <\/p>\n<p>To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish &#8220;Black&#8221; book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>American Fiction<\/em> is a funny, heartwarming tale that holds a mirror up to its viewers \u2013 a well deserved best picture contender.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s by turns laugh-out-loud funny and quietly poignant while grounded by a deeply sympathetic turn, possibly his best yet, from Jeffrey Wright.<\/p>\n<h6>Comedy, Drama<br \/>\nUnited States (English)<br \/>\n1h 57min<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/americanfiction2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5535\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson&#8217;s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture&#8217;s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who&#8217;s fed up with the establishment profiting from &#8220;Black&#8221; entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-post-title","no-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/americanfiction2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5536,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions\/5536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}