History Film / AnAmericanPickle

* AuthorAppeal: Simon Rich and Seth Green are both Jews, and this is a very Jewish film.

* {{Homage}}:

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Herschel comes from a much more conservative time and is prone to making very insensitive and inflammatory statements.

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''An American Pickle'' is an upcoming American comedy film directed by Brandon Trost (in his directorial debut). It is [[TheFilmOfTheBook based upon]] the 2013 novella ''Sell Out'' by Simon Rich, who also wrote the film.

It is scheduled for release on August 6, 2020 on Creator/HBOMax as the latter streaming service's first original film.

* ChemistryCanDoAnything: A scientist explains that Herschel got preserved all these years by pickle brine in the trailer.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The trailer shows that Herschel is more than a little confused at a world that has changed dramatically in 100 years.
* GraveMarkingScene: The trailer shows Herschel going to his long dead wife's grave in present-day.
* HumanPopsicle: Herschel gets preserved in a vat of pickle brine for a full century as seen in the trailer. However, contrary to most examples of the trope, no frost is involved.
* IdenticalGrandson: Herschel and his great-grandson Ben are both played by Seth Rogen as seen in the trailer.
* AnImmigrantsTale: The trailer shows Herschel immigrating to experience UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream. Said dream gets derailed when he falls into a vat of pickles and basically disappears for a whole century. Being a FishOutOfTemporalWater doesn't seem to stop him from trying to improve his present-day family's situation, still.
* MagicalJew: The trailer shows Herschel taking it upon himself to show Ben (who's very much left religion behind, unlike his ancestor) another way than the kind of life he chose.
* {{Ruritania}}: Herschel mentions his country of origin in the trailer, which is called "Schlupsk". It is a fictional country that's clearly meant to evoke Central or Eastern European countries that had lots of shtetls (towns with large Jewish populations) before World War II.
* [[invoked]]ViewerGenderConfusion: In the trailer, Herschel looks at pictures of Music/DavidBowie on the wall of Ben's apartment and asks Ben if it's his father, to a negative response. Then he points at a picture of Bowie's [[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars Ziggy Stardust]] period and asks Ben if it's his mother.

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* [[invoked]]ViewerGenderConfusion: In the trailer, Herschel looks at pictures of Music/DavidBowie on the wall of Ben's apartment and asks Ben if it's his father, to a negative response. Then he points at a picture of Bowie's [[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars Ziggy Stardust]] period and asks ben if it's his mother.

Herschel Greenbaum (Creator/SethRogen) is a struggling Jewish laborer who immigrates from the East European country of Schlupsk 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. The factory is then closed. The pickle brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present-day Brooklyn 100 years later, he finds that he hasn't aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he is horrified to learn that his only surviving relative is his great-grandson, Ben Greenbaum (also played by Rogen), a single and mild-mannered computer programmer whom Herschel can't even begin to understand. Herschel then decides to motivate Ben into doing something in order to save the family.

* [[invoked]]ViewerGenderConfusion: In the trailer, Herschel looks at pictures of Music/DavidBowie on the wall of Ben's apartment and asks Ben if it's his father, to a negative response. Then he points at pictures of Bowie's [[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars Ziggy Stardust]] period and asks ben if it's his mother.

Herschel Greenbaum (Creator/SethRogen) is a struggling Jewish laborer who immigrates from the country of Schlupsk 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. The factory is then closed. The pickle brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present-day Brooklyn 100 years later, he finds that he hasn't aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he is horrified to learn that his only surviving relative is his great-grandson, Ben Greenbaum (also played by Rogen), a single and mild-mannered computer programmer whom Herschel can't even begin to understand. Herschel then decides to motivate Ben into doing something in order to save the family.

Herschel Greenbaum (Creator/SethRogen) is a struggling Jewish laborer who immigrates from the country of Schlupsk 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. The factory is then closed. The pickle brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present-day Brooklyn 100 years later, he finds that he hasn't aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he is horrified to learn that his only surviving relative is his great-grandson, Ben Greenbaum (also played by Rogen), a single and mild-mannered computer programmer whom Herschel can't even begin to understand. Herschel then decides to motivate Ben to do something in order to save the family.

Herschel Greenbaum (Creator/SethRogen) is a struggling Jewish laborer who immigrates from the country of Schlupsk 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. The factory is then closed. The pickle brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present-day Brooklyn 100 years later, he finds that he hasn't aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he is horrified to learn that his only surviving relative is his great-grandson, Ben Greenbaum (also played by Rogen), a mild-mannered computer programmer whom Herschel can't even begin to understand.

* AnImmigrantsTale: The trailer shows Herschel immigrating to experience UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream. Said dream gets derailed when he falls into a vat of pickles and basically disappears for a whole century. Being a FishOutOfTemporalWater doesn't seem to stop him from trying to improve his present-day family's situation.

* AnImmigrantsTale: The trailer shows Herschel immigrating to experience UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream. Said dream gets derailed when he falls into a vat of pickles and basically disappears for a whole century. That doesn't seem to stop him from trying to improve his present-day family's situation, even as he's a FishOutOfTemporalWater.

* AnImmigrantsTale: The trailer shows Herschel immigrating to experience UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream. Said dream gets derailed when he falls into a vat of pickles and basically disappears for a whole century.

* {{Ruritania}}: Herschel mentions his country of origin in the trailer, which is called "Schlupsk". It is a fictional country that's clearly meant to evoke Central or Eastern European countries that had lots of shtetls before World War II.

Herschel Greenbaum (Creator/SethRogen) is a struggling Jewish laborer who immigrates from the country of Schlupsk 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. The pickle brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present-day Brooklyn 100 years later, he finds that he hasn't aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he is horrified to learn that his only surviving relative is his great-grandson, Ben Greenbaum (also played by Rogen), a mild-mannered computer programmer whom Herschel can't even begin to understand.

* {{Ruritania}}: Herschel mentions his country of origin in the trailer, which is called "Schlupsk". It is a fictional that's clearly meant to evoke Central or Eastern European countries that had lots of shtetls.

Herschel Greenbaum is a struggling Jewish laborer who immigrates from the country of Schlupsk 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. The pickle brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present-day Brooklyn 100 years later, he finds that he hasn't aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he is horrified to learn that his only surviving relative is his great-grandson, Ben Greenbaum, a mild-mannered computer programmer whom Herschel can't even begin to understand.