Basic
Info
Title:
Pollock
Genre:
Drama
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Running
time: 122 minutes
Release
date: September 6, 2000
Staff
Director:
Ed Harris
Producer:
Peter M. Brant
Screenplay:
Barbara Turner, Susan Emshwiller
Music:
Jeff Beal
Cinematography:
Lisa Rinzler
Editor:
Kathryn Himoff
Cast
Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock
Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner
Jennifer Connelly as Ruth Kligman
Tom Bower as Dan Miller
Bud Cort as Howard Putzel
John Heard as Tony Smith
Val Kilmer as Willem de Kooning
Amy Madigan as Peggy Guggenheim
Summary
“Pollock” is a
biographical film produced in the United States in 2000 which tells the life
story of American painter Jackson Pollock. The film was directed by Ed Harris and
Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden and Jennifer Connelly starred. Marcia Gay Harden,
who portrayed Pollock's wife, Lee Krasner, won the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress. Ed Harris was nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Actor for portraying Jackson Pollock. This film was a long-term personal
project of Harris based on his previous reading of Pollock's 1989 biography,
“Jackson Pollock: An American Saga.”
Movie
Review
“A good biopic...”
“Art versus Life...and Life
Magazine”
“Impressive biopic”
“Moving and mesmerizing look at the
painter Pollock”
“A good job by actor-director Ed
Harris”
Interesting
stories about the film
1. Ed Harris' father bought his
son a book about Jackson Pollock, simply because he felt that his son was very
similar to Pollock. Since then, Ed Harris has been fascinated by Pollock's
life.
2. Ed Harris, who starred and
worked as a director in this film, was so strenuous that he collapsed on the
set and had to be hospitalized for a while.
3. Ed Harris himself did all the
paintings seen in the film. However, the finished Pollock paintings were
reproduced by an artist group.
4. The veterinarian who appears to
check the dog lying hurt on the road that Pollock found in the film is Bob L.
Harris, Ed Harris' father.
5. Jack Nicholson was initially
considered to star as Jackson Pollock.
Jackson Pollock
No. 5, 1948, Jackson Pollock (1948)
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