In a world where the people behind the scenes are white, university educated and often with middle class backgrounds, who are the ones who decide which book to publish or which movie to make, and also how it is made, authenticity about subjects that are not white and middle class tend to disappear.

This is the theme of the movie when a black university professor whose books are ignored because they are not seen as authentic writes a book to pander to the narrative that the white audience wants.

Funny, and with a lot of middle class angst, it covers a very important topic in a world today where there are more and more mainstream works about African Americans, but where the people behind the scenes are white. It plays the comedy elements well but as an add on to the story rather than just as a story played for laughs.

The problem is that the main character of the story never really grows or goes through a great personal transformation. Like all angry aging middle class people his world view is right and only confirmed as goes through his journey emerging from the other end pretty much the same only with a bit more knowledge. This is despite the opportunity on several occasions to learn and grow.