IN A NUTSHELL: The story is based on Percival Everett's book called "Erasure." This is director Cord Jefferson's debut! He's off to a great start! He also wrote the screenplay with Percival Everett. The film has already won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. In total, it has received 90 nominations and already won 29! Well deserved.

THINGS I LIKED: Jeffrey Wright is absolutely terrific and does an excellent job carrying this film.

The rest of the cast is also fantastic and includes Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, Keith David, and more.

I'm always fascinated by movies about writers. I'm an author of 31 books (you can find them all on Amazon from various publishers...shameless plug), so I love seeing how they're portrayed in films. You can search for my books by using my nane: Trina Boice.

The movie absolutely pokes fun at white people who seem to know more about being black than actual black people.

It was heartbreaking to watch the family navigate an aging mother with Alzheimer's Disease. My family just went through that and had to say goodbye last fall. Those scenes were hard to watch for me. There are so many decisions that a family needs to make during those difficult times, and I thought the film did a good job illustrating that.

There is a lot of clever, satirical humor that pokes fun at society, race, and culture.

I love the ending of the film that shows several endings.

THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE: I really enjoyed this.

TIPS FOR PARENTS: Kids will be bored.

The "N" word is used.

Profanity, including many F-bombs, which also happens to be the name of a book that's talked about a lot in the story.

Talk of gay sex. We see two gay men kiss.

We see a lot of shirtless men.

Lots of gunshots that result in a bloody death.

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