A formerly successful director, Harry Stone, faces financial ruin and dismissal from Hollywood after three consecutive flops. He takes on a commercial movie, "The Pickle", a social satire about kids from Kansas who travel to a planet where everyone eats beef and dies at 49. The film follows Harry's emotional turmoil as he prepares for the movie's release, while his agent assures him it will be a hit.
The Pickle
A director's faltering career and financial woes are reignited by a lucrative yet artistically unfulfilling endeavor.