AN AMERICAN PICKLE (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Seth Rogen (Knocked Up), Sarah Snook (The Dressmaker), Jorma Taccone (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping), Maya Erskine (Plus One), Eliot Glazer (film debut), Kalen Allen (film debut), Molly Evensen (Speak Now), Kevin O’Rourke (The Aviator), Joanna Adler (School of Rock), Sean Whalen (Twister), Geoffrey Cantor (Hail, Caesar!)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Brandon Trost (The FP), director; Simon Rich (film debut), writer; Evan Goldberg (Superbad), Seth Rogen (Sausage Party) and James Weaver (Bad Neighbours), producers; Nami Melumad (Miss Arizona), composer; John Guleserian (Love, Simon), cinematographer; Lisa Zeno Churgin (The Cider House Rules), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1919, a lowly Eastern European labourer named Herschel Greenbaum (Rogen) emigrates to New York with dreams of building a better life for his family. He finds a job at a pickle factory, but when he accidentally falls into a vat of pickles the brine preserves him and he comes up to find that 100 years have suddenly passed, and that he hasn’t aged a day. After tracking down his descendant, computer coder Ben (also Rogen), Herschel sets out to fulfil his original promise to build a better life…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Seth Rogen takes on a double role in what is perhaps one of the strangest projects that the actor has participated in… and this is the same guy who came up with Sausage Party!

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 7TH AUGUST 2020

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