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An American Pickle
MEANRANK
54/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4763
- IMDb #5057
- Google retired #3306
- Metacritic #3963
- Letterboxd #4721
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2529
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- Metacritic Critics #2613
- Metacritic Audience #4882
- Criticker #3486
- Kinopoisk #4908
- AlloCiné #4947
- Trakt #4777
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 30, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 73. Critics average 66, everyone else 52.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A struggling app developer and laborer from 1920s Eastern Europe is perfectly preserved in a vat of pickle brine for 100 years. He wakes up in present-day Brooklyn and meets his only living relative: his mild-mannered great-grandson. The two men attempt to bond despite a century of cultural differences, clashing over work, family, and their opposing views on the American dream.
Details
- Director
- Brandon Trost
- Writer
- Simon Rich
- Based on
- a work by Simon Rich
- Released
- 6 August 2020
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Rated
- PG-13
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