A true portrait of life and art.
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.
- 6.7
- 2000
- Released
- 2h 12m
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
Molly Regan
Arloie Pollock
Sada Thompson
Stella Pollock
Eulala Scheel
Arloie's Baby
Matthew Sussman
Reuben Kadish
Amy Madigan
Peggy Guggenheim
Everett Quinton
James Johnson Sweeney
Annabelle Gurwitch
May Rosenberg
John Rothman
Harold Rosenberg
Kenny Scharf
William BaziotesTom McGuinness
Franz Kline
Jeffrey Tambor
Clem GreenbergKatherine Wallach
Barbara KadishCassandra Clewicki
Kadish Child
Sloane Shelton
Dot MillerEduardo Machado
Alfonso OssorioMoss Roberts
Ted DragonRobert O'Neill
Herbert MatterIsabelle Townsend
Mercedes Matter
Jennifer Piech
Young Redhead
Rebecca Wisocky
Dorothy Seiberling
Linda Emond
Martha HolmesTony Palazzolo
Delivery Man
Barbara Garrick
Betty Parsons
David Cale
William Wright
Claire Beckman
Vita Peterson
Stephen Beach
Jay PollockJill Jackson
Alma Pollock
Donna Mitchell
Elizabeth Pollock
Sondra Jablonski
Jeremy Pollock
Frank Wood
Frank PollockJulie Anna Rose
Marie PollockKyle Timothy Smith
Jonathan PollockApril Petroski
Karen PollockNicholas Petroski
Jason PollockNoah Petroski
Jason Pollock
Norbert Weisser
Hans Namuth
Sally Murphy
Edith MetzgerBob L. Harris
VeterinarianJake
Young GypTrecker
Old GypJohn Madigan
News Broadcaster (voice)Matthew Hart Landfield
Newspaper Boy (uncredited)John Nesci
East Hampton Police Officer (uncredited)
Released
en
$6,000,000.00
$10,994,533.00
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Reviews
_**Downer biography starts weak, but becomes, um, artistic… and moving**_ Abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (Ed Harris) is a struggling artist in New York City in the early 40s when he meets his future wife Lee Krasner, a fellow artist (Marcia Gay Harden). They move to the far end of Long Island where he finally catches a break, but alcoholism threatens his life. Jennifer Connelly shows u