"An American Pickle" - Seth Rogen Survives 100 Years in Pickle Barrel

Starting tomorrow, HBO Max subscribers will have access to a new multi-generational comedy titled An American Pickle.

Adapted by Simon Rich from his 2013 New Yorker novella Sell Out, the movie stars Seth Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a struggling laborer who immigrates to America in 1919 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family.

One day, while working at his factory job, he falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years. The brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present day Brooklyn, he finds that he hasn’t aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he learns that his only surviving relative is his great-grandson Ben Greenbaum (also played by Rogen), a mild-mannered computer coder whom Herschel can’t even begin to understand.

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Enjoy!

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