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10/11/2023 Comedy, Drama 1h 57m
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Once you go full black, you ain't never going back!

Overview

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.

  1. Cord Jefferson

    Writer, Director

Top billed cast

  1. Jeffrey Wright

    Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison

  2. John Ortiz

    Arthur

  3. Erika Alexander

    Coraline

  4. Leslie Uggams

    Agnes Ellison

  5. Sterling K. Brown

    Clifford Ellison

  6. Skyler Wright

    Brittany

  7. John Ales

    Leo

  8. Patrick Fischler

    Mandel

  9. Carmen Cusack

    Gilda

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-02-08
Jeffrey Wright is great in this satirical look at all things hypocritical and exploitative surrounding "blackness" in the USA. "Monk" is the short-tempered writer-cum-lecturer whose behaviour gets him put on indefinite leave by his university and sent to Boston! That's where his family live and where we get our first introduction to his sister "Lisa" (Tracee Ellis Ross). Now she's got the measure of her curmudgeonly brother and as they spar we start to see elements of his deeply-buried humanity emerge. Maybe he's not the man we first thought, and that depth of character becomes more evident as...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$16,000,000.00

Revenue
$22,483,370.00

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