| ISBN |
9398700050557 |
| Classification Number |
Comedy |
| Title |
An American pickle. [DVD] |
| Physical Description |
sound, colour ; |
| Series |
DVD |
| Comedy |
| Note |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2020. R-126494-9 |
| Based on the four-part serialised New Yorker short story, Sell Out, by Simon Rich. |
| Performer |
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, J Michael Grey, Efka Kvaraciejus. |
| 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. Anchored by Seth Rogen who plays the dual lead roles of a 1920 immigrant and his modern-day great-grandson, skilfully balancing charm and melancholy in a performance that has been critically received as a understated accomplishment. Based on the four-part serialised New Yorker short story, Sell Out, by Simon Rich (Saturday Night Live), who also adapts the film's screenplay. |
| Classification |
Censorship classification : PG - Mild themes, violence and coarse language. |
| Subject |
Feature films |
| Comedy films |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
| Video recordings for people with visual disabilities |
| Feature films -- 2020 |
| Unskilled labor -- Drama |
| Immigrants -- United States -- Drama |
| Computer programmers -- Drama |
| Grandparent and child -- Drama |
| Unskilled labour -- Drama |
| Additional Author |
Rogen, Seth, 1982- |
| Snook, Sarah, 1987- |
| Glazer, Eliot |
| Allen, Kalen, 1996- |
| Trost, Brandon, 1981- |
| Rich, Simon Sell out. |
