Storyline

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.

Plot Keywords

painter, life magazine, artist, painting, surname as title, killed in a car accident, ends with death, unhappy ending, riding a bicycle, cigarette smoking, profanity, f word, main character dies, urination, talking while driving, fade to black, greenwich village manhattan new york city, year 1941, telephone, lying on bed

Short Review

For better and worse, Pollock is an Action Painterly picture, an ambitious work of ambiguous surfaces.

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