Last show! Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay, Cord Jefferson’s smart and subversively funny directorial debut puts our society's fixation on cultural stereotypes under the microscope. Jeffrey Wright stars as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a professor and frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on offensive tropes. Aiming for satire, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
