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An American Pickle
Comedy, Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy offbeat family stories that use absurd premises to explore changing cultural identity and the distance between generations.
- Tone
- whimsical, bittersweet, warm
- Payoff
- amusement, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- gentle
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- immigration, family, generational change, cultural identity, adaptation
- Setting
- early twentieth century and contemporary, working-class urban neighborhood
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