
At the end of the 1940's, abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is featured in Life magazine. Flashback to 1941, he's living with his brother in a tiny apartment in New York City, drinking too much, and exhibiting an occasional painting in group shows. That's when he meets artist Lee Krasner, who puts her career on hold to be his companion, lover, champion, wife, and, in essence, caretaker. To get him away from booze, insecurity, and the stress of city life, they... (Full plot summary below)
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At the end of the 1940's, abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is featured in Life magazine. Flashback to 1941, he's living with his brother in a tiny apartment in New York City, drinking too much, and exhibiting an occasional painting in group shows. That's when he meets artist Lee Krasner, who puts her career on hold to be his companion, lover, champion, wife, and, in essence, caretaker. To get him away from booze, insecurity, and the stress of city life, they move to the Hamptons where nature and sobriety help Pollock achieve a breakthrough in style: a critic praises, then Life magazine calls. But so do old demons: the end is nasty, brutish, and short.
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| Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttFlat and uninvolving, flash cards from a life but with no life itself. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertPollock is confident, insightful work--one of the year's best films. |
| Urban CinefileUrban Cinefile CriticsMore than a straightforward biography charting Jackson Pollock's rise to prominence, Ed Harris' film is a penetrating study of the work ethic as it applied to one of America's great post-war painters. |
| Rochester Democrat and ChronicleJack GarnerA remarkably detailed, emotionally layered, deeply affecting film. |
| Film.comPeter BrunetteIrrespective of whether Pollock, as a movie, is any good -- and it is very, very good -- it's clear that Ed Harris was born to play the lead role. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrHarris convincingly creates one "Pollock" after another over the course of the movie. |
| L.A. WeeklyF. X. FeeneyWhat Harris extracts from himself is nothing less than a psychological nude scene, sustained across two hours. |
| VarietyDavid RooneyDistinguished by its quiet, intelligent, admirably restrained approach and by two finely wrought performances from Harris and Marcia Gay Harden in the leading roles. |
| Greg's Previews at Yahoo! MoviesGreg Dean SchmitzIt all seems in retrospect like more than what you'd expect in a 2-hour film, but somehow, Harris gets it all in there. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyIn the same way a tap dancer innately understands the percolating syncopation of all jazz music, Ed Harris identifies character rhythms and physical possibilities in drama. |