Pollock

Plot

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.

About Pollock

Pollock is a 2000 American independent biographical drama film centered on the life of painter Jackson Pollock, his struggles with alcoholism, as well as his troubled marriage to his wife Lee Krasner. It stars Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Val Kilmer, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, and Sada Thompson. It was directed by Harris. Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Krasner. Harris received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Pollock. The film was a long-term personal project for Harris based on him having read the 1989 biography Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, written by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith.

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