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An American Pickle Instant

He eventually tracks down his only living relative, his great-grandson Ben Greenbaum (also Rogen). Ben is a sensitive app developer—the polar opposite of the rugged, faith-driven, and often combative Herschel. The Clash of Generations

: He wakes up in modern-day Brooklyn and tracks down his only living relative, his great-grandson Ben (also played by Rogen), a sensitive app developer. An American Pickle

The film opens in Schlupsk, Eastern Europe, in 1919. Herschel Greenbaum (Seth Rogen) is a hardscrabble laborer who dreams of a better life. After a pogrom destroys his village, he and his wife, Sarah (Sarah Snook), emigrate to America. They settle in a tenement in Brooklyn, where Herschel works in a pickle factory. He eventually tracks down his only living relative,

An American Pickle Instant

He eventually tracks down his only living relative, his great-grandson Ben Greenbaum (also Rogen). Ben is a sensitive app developer—the polar opposite of the rugged, faith-driven, and often combative Herschel. The Clash of Generations

: He wakes up in modern-day Brooklyn and tracks down his only living relative, his great-grandson Ben (also played by Rogen), a sensitive app developer.

The film opens in Schlupsk, Eastern Europe, in 1919. Herschel Greenbaum (Seth Rogen) is a hardscrabble laborer who dreams of a better life. After a pogrom destroys his village, he and his wife, Sarah (Sarah Snook), emigrate to America. They settle in a tenement in Brooklyn, where Herschel works in a pickle factory.