An American Pickle

Aug 6, 2020

1h 29m

★ 5.7

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Point Grey Pictures

Gravitational Productions

Warner Max

Sony Pictures

An American Pickle Trailers

Cast

Herschel Greenbaum / Ben Greenbaum

Seth Rogen

Sarah Greenbaum

Sarah Snook

Clara

Molly Evensen

Christian

Eliot Glazer

Kevin

Kalen Allen

Dane Brunt

Kevin O'Rourke

Scientist

Sean Whalen

David Greenbaum

Geoffrey Cantor

Susan Greenbaum

Carol Leifer

Liam

Jorma Taccone

Inspector Sanders

Marsha Stephanie Blake

News Anchor

Alyse Zwick

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