Synopsis
An American Pickle (2020) is a comedy with a quiet melancholy streak you can watch online on iFILM. Herschel Greenbaum, an immigrant laborer, tumbles into a vat of brine at a Brooklyn pickle factory in 1920 and climbs out a century later, not a day older.
His only living relative is Ben, a great-grandson who codes apps and chases startup funding. Seth Rogen plays both men — the stubborn old-world worker and his unmoored heir — sharing the frame through clever effects work. Director Brandon Trost frames it as a clash of eras: hard labor against hashtags, faith against irony. It lands softer and sadder than the premise suggests, using the gag about a pickled man to ask what survives of a family after a hundred years. Stream An American Pickle online on iFILM.
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