


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

Eulala Scheel
Arloie's Baby

Matthew Sussman
Reuben Kadish

Amy Madigan
Peggy Guggenheim

Everett Quinton
James Johnson Sweeney

Annabelle Gurwitch
May Rosenberg

John Rothman
Harold Rosenberg

Kenny Scharf
William Baziotes
Tom McGuinness
Franz Kline
Ed Harris
Susan Emshwiller, Barbara Turner
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