decent film that provided a few chuckles. Jeffery Wright is indeed a good actor but I enjoyed the affable but unscrupulous literary agent the most. Thought the white characters were completely broad and unserious, which I took to be a sort of not-so-subtle inversion of cinema's long racist history of black roles being dehumanized and existing as negative stereotypes (or the "magical negro" ofc) That is a fine directorial decision, but it sort of ruined the otherwise sensitive and nuanced feel of the film and unintentionally less funny.
Keith David remains a king, my other thought.