In the trailer for the upcoming film An American Pickle, Sarah Snook says in Yiddish that she dreams of being “like, ‘afford my own gravestone’ rich.†It’s darkly funny, and it’s honestly a 2020 mood as much as it is a 1919 one. An American Pickle follows Herschel Greenbaum (Seth Rogen), an Eastern European immigrant to New York who — klutz that he is — falls into a big ol’ pickle vat and is perfectly pickled for 100 years. When he’s fished out in 2020, Snook is long gone with a gravestone of her own but Herschel meets his surviving mishpacha, a great-grandson named Ben. Ben bears a striking resemblance to Herschel because he, too, is played by Seth Rogen. It’s like Perfect Strangers meets “Pickle Rick.†There are laughs, there are tears, there are polio jokes, there’s Rogen-on-Rogen hugging, and there appears to be plenty of intergenerational trauma, in case you were worried there wouldn’t be. An American Pickle is based on a Simon Rich short story, and it will be released on HBO Max on August 6. And for what it’s worth, shtetl daddy Seth Rogen is a total smoke show.
Seth Rogen’s An American Pickle Trailer Will Make You Verklempt
