The Pickle Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Mazursky
Genres: Comedy
Rating:
Paul_Mazursky directed this comedy, which blends a broad satire of the film industry with a thoughtful tale of a middle-aged man looking back on his life's failures. Harry Stone (Danny_Aiello) is a film director who desperately needs a hit -- so desperately that he gets talked into directing an inane sci-fi film about a group of farm kids (led by Ally_Sheedy) who grow an enormous pickle that they turn into a spaceship, allowing them to visit the planet Cleveland (ruled by Little_Richard and his right hand man, Griffin_Dunne) where everyone eats nothing but meat. Convinced that the film will flop, Harry is in a state of panic as he returns to New York with his Parisian girlfriend Francoise (Clotilde_Courau), a mere 20 years his junior, and visits his ex-wife Ellen (Dyan_Cannon); his mother Yetta (Shelley_Winters); and his son Gregory (Chris_Penn). Meanwhile Harry flashes back on his childhood and the film he could have made of it, and pitches his dream film (a historical epic about the life of Montezuma) to studio executives, who instead want him to make a movie kids can relate to. The Pickle was filmed in 1991, but only received a token theatrical release two years later. Actually, the sci-fi story with Little_Richard as the undisputed ruler of Cleveland looks like it might have been an ideal vehicle for Edward_D._Wood_Jr.. Mark Deming, Rovi
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