TY - ADVS AU - Jefferson,Cord AU - LeClair,Ben AU - Karamigios,Nikos AU - Johnson,Jermaine AU - Wright,Jeffrey AU - Ross,Tracee Ellis AU - Ortiz,John AU - Alexander,Erika AU - Uggams,Leslie AU - Brody,Adam AU - David,Keith AU - Rae,Issa AU - Brown,Sterling K. AU - Dunlap,Cristina AU - Rasula,Hilda AU - Karpman,Laura AU - Everett,Percival ED - Orion Pictures, ED - Media Rights Capital (Firm), ED - T-Street Productions (Firm), ED - Almost Infinite (Firm), ED - 3 Arts Entertainment (Firm), ED - Warner Bros. Entertainment, TI - American fiction PY - 2024///] CY - [Burbank, CA] PB - Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. KW - African American novelists KW - Drama KW - African American college teachers KW - Anonyms and pseudonyms KW - Boston (Mass.) KW - Comedy films KW - lcgft KW - Feature films KW - Fiction films KW - Film adaptations KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Video recordings for people with visual disabilities N1 - Based upon the novel 'Erasure' by Percival Everett; Originally released as a motion picture in 2023; Wide screen; Director of photography, Cristina Dunlap ; edited by Hilda Rasula ; music by Laura Karpman; Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Keith David, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Ray Anthony Thomas, Okieriete Onaodowan, Miriam Shor, Michael Cyril Creighton, Patrick Fischler, Neal Lerner; MPAA rating: R; for language throughout, some drug use, sexual references and brief violence N2 - Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he 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 ER -