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An American Pickle

20201h 29mComedy · Drama
directed by Brandon Trost

“A story of self preservation”

2.2 / 10 Compare with…9 stills

Ratings report

My score
2.2 / 10
TMDB
5.8 / 10
601 votes
IMDb
5.7 / 10
27,510 votes
Metacritic
58 / 100
Rotten Tomatoes
73%

The scorecard 2.2 / 10

Content 0.8 Form 1.4
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Synopsis

An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.

Cast

Seth Rogen·Herschel Greenbaum / Ben Greenbaum
Sarah Snook·Sarah Greenbaum
Molly Evensen·Clara
Eliot Glazer·Christian
Kalen Allen·Kevin
Kevin O'Rourke·Dane Brunt
Sean Whalen·Scientist
Geoffrey Cantor·David Greenbaum
Carol Leifer·Susan Greenbaum
Jorma Taccone·Liam

Stills

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