Round 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 film 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 documentary titled for this adjective about guitarist Mike Schank and (15[1])Mark Borchardt, an amateur filmmaker from (*) Wisconsin. A former Gawker editor 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. This adjective titles a 2023 satire whose (10[1])Oscar-winning screenplay by Cord Jefferson adapts Percival Everett’s novel Erasure. For 10 points, Jeffrey Wright played an author in that film titled for what sort of “fiction”? ■END■

ANSWER: American [or American Movie; or American Fiction]
<AP, USA> | Spec-Script_04
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2025 Spec Script - Canada2025-06-21✓2100%50%0%109.00
2025 Spec Script - Online 12025-06-21✓10100%50%10%102.40
2025 Spec Script - Online 22025-06-21✓3100%33%0%111.33