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    An American Pickle

    Aug 30, 2020 3 minutes

    John Nugent (News Editor): Well, anyone who thinks that Seth Rogen is in too many movies won’t like this film. There’s twice as much Seth Rogen as usual.

    [] “The premise is that an Eastern European labourer emigrates to America in the early 20th century, falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for a hundred years, where he meets his great-grandson in modern-day Brooklyn.” And they’re both played by Seth Rogen. This is where we need

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