Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

An American pickle / writer, Simon Rich ; director, Brandon Trost ; producers, Seth Rogen [and 5 others].

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Warner Bros., 2020.

Description:

1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm

Summary:

An American Pickle stars Seth Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a struggling labourer who immigrates to America in 1919 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family. One day, while working at his factory job, he falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years. The brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present day Brooklyn, he finds that he hasn't aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he learns that his only surviving relative is his great-grandson Ben Greenbaum (also played by Rogen), a mild-mannered computer coder whom Herschel can't even begin to understand.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: PG-13.

Subjects:

Immigrants -- United States -- Drama.

Jews -- United States -- Drama.

Unskilled labor -- United States -- Drama.

Canning and preserving -- Drama.

Computer programmers -- Drama.

Grandparent and child -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Comedy films.