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Pollock
| Rating: | R (for language and brief sexuality) |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | December 15, 2000 |
| Running time: | 117 minutes |
| Cast: | Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan, Jennifer Connelly, Jeffrey Tambor |
| Director: | Ed Harris |
| Producer: | Fred Berner, Ed Harris, Jon Kilik |
| Writer: | Barbara Turner, Susan Emshwiller |
| Distributor: | Sony Pictures Classics |
Description: 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?" Already well known in the New York art world, he had become a household name--American's first "Art Star"--and his bold and radical style of painting continued to change the course of modern art. But the torments that had plagued the artist all of his life--perhaps the ones that drove him to paint in the first place, or that helped script his fiercely original art--continued to haunt him. 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 that would threaten to destroy the foundations of his marriage, the promise of his career, and his life--all on one deceptively calm and balmy summer night in 1956.
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