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.
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 |