MOVIE OF THE WEEK (3/15/24): THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES
"I heard the NPR reviewer didn't like our movie ... Looks like we better send them a magical Negro of their own ..." Aren (Justice Smith) looks on as Roger (David Alan Grier) prepares to show him how to diffuse a potentially dangerous interaction in a scene from writer/director Kobi Libiii's THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES . Credit: © 2024 Focus Features. All Rights Reserved. WATCH THE TRAILER HERE: KEY CAST MEMBERS: Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, An-Li Bogan, Drew Tarver, Micaela Watkins and Nicole Byer DIRECTOR : Kobi Libii THE BACK STORY: Ahh ... The magical negro. First coined by Spike Lee in response to all the black characters that would appear in movies for no other purpose than to serve as a spiritual Jiminy Cricket or Tinkerbell to the lead white protagonist, the magical negro has existed in many forms on screen. But what if they existed in real life? In writer/director Kobi Libii's documentar-er, social satire, they are. THE AMERICAN