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An American Pickle

2020 · 89 min

A light, good-natured comedy with a sentimental streak, offering easy laughs and a warm look at family ties across generations.

Directed by
Brandon Trost
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Tagline
A story of self preservation
Overview
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.

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Directed by
Brandon Trost
Genres
Comedy, Drama
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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • identity
  • immigration
  • trauma
  • redemption
Places
  • big city
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour7
Realism4
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Brandon Trost
Written by
Simon Rich
Starring
Seth Rogen, Sarah Snook, Molly Evensen, Eliot Glazer, Kalen Allen, Kevin O'Rourke, Sean Whalen, Geoffrey Cantor
Music
Michael Giacchino, Nami Melumad
Cinematography
John Guleserian
Runtime
89 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
Yiddish, Hebrew, English

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