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An American pickle

An American pickle
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Uniform Title An American pickle (Motion picture : 2020)
Title An American pickle [videorecording]
Publication Pyrmont, NSW : Roadshow Home Entertainment, [2021]
©2020.
Physical description 1 DVD-video (approximately 84 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Notes Originally produced as a motion picture in 2020.
Based on the four-part serialised New Yorker short story, Sell Out, by Simon Rich.
Credit Notes Written by Simon Rich ; Produced by Ted Gidlow, Evan Goldberg, Alex McAtee, Simon Rich, Seth Rogen, James Weaver ; Directed by Brandon Trost.
Participants/Performers 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.
Notes 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.
Censorship classification : PG - Mild themes, violence and coarse language.
Region code DVD ; PAL ; Region 4 ; 16:9 Enhanced ; Widescreen 16:9 ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Languages In English. [CC] [AD]
Subject Immigrants -- United States -- Drama
Computer programmers -- Drama
Grandparent and child -- Drama
Unskilled labour -- Drama
Genre/Form Comedy films
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