Packet 4: Tossup 19

This adjective appears in the title of a film in which the protagonist winds up a flag while recounting his clean-up of a feces-covered bathroom. In a (15[1])film (-5[1])titled for this adjective, the protagonist makes his uncle Bill half-heartedly recite the line “it’s alright, it’s okay, there’s something to live for … Jesus told me so!” The end of that film titled for this adjective contains clips from the horror film Coven (“KOH-vin”). Chris Smith directed a 1999 (15[1])documentary (15[2])titled for this adjective (15[1])about guitarist Mike Schank and (15[1])Mark Borchardt, an amateur filmmaker from (15[1])(*) Wisconsin. A former Gawker editor (10[1])directed a movie titled for this adjective in which the protagonist’s family beach house is mismanaged by his promiscuous plastic surgeon brother Cliff, played by Sterling K. Brown. (10[1])This adjective titles a 2023 satire whose (10[2])Oscar-winning screenplay (10[2])by Cord Jefferson adapts Percival Everett’s novel Erasure. For 10 points, Jeffrey Wright (10[1])played an author in that film titled for what sort of “fiction”? ■END■ (10[1])

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