Pollock

• 6.7 Drama
• 2000-09-06
• 132 minutes mins

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.

Starring:

Ed Harris (Jackson Pollock) Marcia Gay Harden (Lee Krasner) Tom Bower (Dan Miller) Jennifer Connelly (Ruth Kligman) Bud Cort (Howard Putzel) John Heard (Tony Smith) Val Kilmer (Willem DeKooning) David Leary (Charles Pollock) Robert Knott (Sande Pollock) Stephanie Seymour (Helen Frankenthaler)

Director:

Ed Harris

Writer:

Barbara Turner Susan Emshwiller