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.
While the movie starts off with a rather ridiculous premise this premise actually resulted in some really funny scenes by the two leads. The problem that this movie had is that as it got past the easy story lines created by the premise and required the story to be moved forward it started to lose steam. The film actually did touch on questions such as religious belief and the value of family but never really seemed to know what it was doing. By the end it just seemed to limp over the finish line with the ending we all knew was coming.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews An American Pickle
Movie title: An American Pickle
Movie description: 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.
Date published: 2020-08-12
Director(s): Brandon Trost
Actor(s): Seth Rogen, Sarah Snook, Molly Evensen, Eliot Glazer, Kalen Allen, Kevin O'Rourke, Sean Whalen, Geoffrey Cantor, Carol Leifer, Jorma Taccone, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Alyse Zwick, Dalon Huntington, Jeremy Michael Grey, Efka Kvaraciejus, Darryl Bailey Smith II, Dino Rende, Peter Kybart, Joanna Adler, Herb Mendelsohn, Norm Golden, Al Nazemian, Adam Dunhoff, Mark Diamond, Leib Cohen, Liz Cackowski, Tim Robinson, Betsy Sodaro, Quinta Brunson, Kurt Braunohler, Michael Weaver, David Flick, Raymond Neil Hernandez, John Walpole, Ian Poake, Charles Rogers, Jess Stark, Jon Donahue, Amy Marsalis, Paul Monte Jr., Julie Mun, Allan Snyder, Fabio Polanco, Havilah Brewster, Francis Capone, Alex McAtee, Dionysius Akeem, Jeff Daniel Phillips, David Mattey, Emily Austin, Nick Arapoglou, Trenton Hudson, Tiffany Sander McKenzie, Adam Ratcliffe, Mike Ancas, Kristin Cochell, Paul Castro Jr., Estes Tarver, Alexandre Chen, Chuck Filipov, Joe Fishel
Genre: Comedy
My Review
While the movie starts off with a rather ridiculous premise this premise actually resulted in some really funny scenes by the two leads. The problem that this movie had is that as it got past the easy story lines created by the premise and required the story to be moved forward it started to lose steam. The film actually did touch on questions such as religious belief and the value of family but never really seemed to know what it was doing. By the end it just seemed to limp over the finish line with the ending we all knew was coming.
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