An American Pickle
Brandon Trost's comedy-drama features Seth Rogen in two parts as two estranged relatives who are separated by a hundred years. The movie begins in 1919 and centers on Herschel Greenbaum , a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe who moves to Brooklyn with his wife Sarah after the Cossacks demolish their shtetl . Herschel, who works as a rat killer in a pickle factory, unintentionally falls into a brine vat and is preserved flawlessly for a century. When scientists bring him back to life in modern-day Brooklyn, he finds that Ben Greenbaum (also Rogen), a polite freelance app developer who has strayed from his Jewish heritage and battles with career direction, is the only surviving descendent. What starts out as a fish-out-of-water comedy turns into a reflection on cultural assimilation , generational trauma, and legacy. Ben's modern, digitally mediated life and Herschel's traditional resolve and religious dedication clash, causing tension that ultimately leads to understandin...
