Pollock

6.7

United States Of America

Drama History

132 min

2000

Annabelle Gurwitch Sally Murphy Norbert Weisser Frank Wood Sondra Jablonski Donna Mitchell Stephen Beach Claire Beckman David Cale Barbara Garrick Linda Emond Rebecca Wisocky Jennifer Piech Sloane Shelton Jeffrey Tambor John Rothman Ed Harris Everett Quinton Amy Madigan Matthew Sussman Eulala Scheel Sada Thompson Stephanie Seymour Robert Knott David Leary Val Kilmer John Heard Bud Cort Jennifer Connelly Tom Bower Marcia Gay Harden

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.