Pollock (2000) on Netflix
Jackson Pollock shows paintings in group shows and shares a tiny New York apartment with his brother Sande and Sande's wife Arloie. Lee Krasner takes him in and manages his career.
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Plot summary
The painter Jackson Pollock exhibits a painting now and then in group shows and lives with his brother Sande and Sande's wife Arloie in a tiny New York apartment. Because Arloie is expecting a baby, Pollock decides to move out. He meets the artist Lee Krasner and takes an interest in her. After a drinking binge, Sande and Lee find him in a disheveled state, and Sande tells Lee that Pollock has been diagnosed as clinically neurotic. Lee takes him home and becomes his manager.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pollock (2000)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The project was a decade-long passion for Ed Harris, sparked when his own father gave him a copy of Jackson Pollock's biography, which set him on the path to adapting and directing the film himself.
- Filming took a mere 50 days, with a six-week layoff after forty days so that Harris could gain thirty pounds and grow a beard, and Harris himself did all the painting seen in the film.
SPOILER
An intoxicated Pollock crashed the car, killing himself and one of his passengers and throwing another passenger into a ditch, seriously injuring her.- Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Krasner, while Ed Harris received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Pollock.
