British Film Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
The comedy tells about the life of a black writer (Monck), who lost popularity, gave up writing serious, but not in demand, books and limited himself to teaching. He was always isolated from his family and did not get along well with her.
One day Monk attends a meeting of a young writer with young readers. At the end of the meeting, she read a passage from her highly successful book and garnered applause. Monk was struck by the fact that such a trivial book in all respects was a success and sold well. As a mischievous essay, he writes a 100-page novel about the lowest-ranking black residents of his city and presents the manuscript to his publisher as a joke. The manuscript went well.
Monk is ashamed of what he wrote, and invents a biography of the alleged author. He agrees to publish on condition of anonymity. This was further facilitated by tragic circumstances: the mother goes to Alzheimer’s, the sister died in his arms, and the brother is not good. There is no money, mother needs care, but the manuscript gives a lot of money, and for the scripts four million.
It is in this situation that there is a struggle with oneself for the purity of morals. A lot of very cute and funny circumstances, witty dialogue, fun. I haven't seen a good American comedy in a long time.
Almost all actors are black.