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"If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means."
Ed Harris (who also directed) portrays the madman Jackson Pollock -- neurotic, alcoholic, womanizing, misogynistic, and brilliant abstract artist -- from the time he first began making an impression on the world in the early 1940s until his tragic death in 1956.
Marcia Gay Harden plays Pollock's wife Lee Krasner who was also an abstract artist. Others in the cast include Val Kilmer as artist Willem DeKooning; Sada Thompson as Pollock's mother; Robert Knott and David Leary as Pollock's brothers Sande and Charles; John Heard as architect Tony Smith; Jeffrey Tambor as art critic Clem Greenberg; and the art patrons Bud Cort as Howard Putzel and Amy Madigan as Peggy Guggenheim; Jennifer Connelly as his lover Ruth Kligman. Ed Harris' own father, Bob Harris, has a small role as a veterinarian.
With a good Tom Waits song over the closing credits.
Run time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
Rated R for language and brief sexuality.
My personal rating: B+
Ed Harris (who also directed) portrays the madman Jackson Pollock -- neurotic, alcoholic, womanizing, misogynistic, and brilliant abstract artist -- from the time he first began making an impression on the world in the early 1940s until his tragic death in 1956.
Marcia Gay Harden plays Pollock's wife Lee Krasner who was also an abstract artist. Others in the cast include Val Kilmer as artist Willem DeKooning; Sada Thompson as Pollock's mother; Robert Knott and David Leary as Pollock's brothers Sande and Charles; John Heard as architect Tony Smith; Jeffrey Tambor as art critic Clem Greenberg; and the art patrons Bud Cort as Howard Putzel and Amy Madigan as Peggy Guggenheim; Jennifer Connelly as his lover Ruth Kligman. Ed Harris' own father, Bob Harris, has a small role as a veterinarian.
With a good Tom Waits song over the closing credits.
Run time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
Rated R for language and brief sexuality.
My personal rating: B+
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