An American Pickle
An American Pickle is a 2020 American comedy-drama film directed by Brandon Trost (in his solo directorial debut) and written by Simon Rich, based on his 2013 short story "Sell Out". The film stars Seth Rogen as an Eastern European Jewish immigrant who gets preserved in a vat of pickles and wakes up a century later in modern-day New York City, attempting to fit in with the assistance of his last remaining descendant (also played by Rogen).
Plot
Herschel Greenbaum and wife, Sarah, are struggling Jewish laborers from Eastern Europe. They emigrate from their shtetl to America in 1919, after their village is rampaged by Russian Cossacks. He finds a job at a pickle factory and saves up for two graves at a Jewish cemetery. One day, while working, he falls into a vat of pickles just as the factory is closed for health reasons, leaving Herschel brined for 100 years.
More details
author | Simon Rich |
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contentLocation | Pittsburgh |
director | Brandon Trost |
editor | Lisa Zeno Churgin |
genre | comedy-drama |
keywords | america brooklyn bury buy canadian border construction worker cossack criminal record eastern europe factory free speech health inspector jew jewish shtetl social media struggle synagogue twitter united states |
musicBy | Nami Melumad |
producer | Evan Goldberg James Weaver Seth Rogen |
productionCompany | Point Grey Pictures Sony Pictures Entertainment Warner Max |
publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |