Seth Rogen stars in 'An American Pickle,' a sweet comedy about cultural conflicts, family and faith that marks the first original film from hbomax. Read THR's review:
The charmer of an opening — which mixes Rogen's heavily Russian-accented English-language voiceover with Yiddish dialogue — begins in the fictional Eastern European shtetl of Schlupsk in 1919. Herschel Greenbaum is the town's ditch-digger, contending with broken shovels and rickety carts and a God that makes life difficult until he encounters the beautiful Sarah at the market. "She is strong and healthy, has all her teeth, top and bottom," Herschel says admiringly.
That freak occurrence makes him the exact same age as his only living relative, his great-grandson Ben , who plays down his still-raw feelings about the loss of both his parents in a car accident. Herschel's consternation about computer coder Ben's rejection of religion is somewhat ameliorated by the fact that his great-grandson has his own seltzer machine.
The process of Herschel making his own pickles — involving produce retrieved from a dumpster, salvaged jars, a converted supermarket cart and rainwater — is funny in a quaintly daffy way. And there are laughs in his first transaction with a gay couple , who approve of his locally sourced ingredients, no-frills marketing and recycling policies.
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