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 enough to purchase two graves at a Jewish cemetery. Meanwhile, Sarah becomes pregnant with their son. One day, while working, Herschel falls into a vat of pickles just as the factory is closed for health reasons, leaving him 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 arrest brooklyn bury buy canadian border construction worker controversial subject cossack criminal record draw eastern europe factory free speech health inspector jew jewish pregnant shtetl social media strike struggle synagogue twitter united states |
| musicBy | Nami Melumad |
| producer | Evan Goldberg James Weaver Seth Rogen |
| productionCompany | Point Grey Pictures Sony Pictures |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |