Pollock

A true portrait of life and art.

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)

Jeffrey Tambor

(Clem Greenberg)

Katherine Wallach

(Barbara Kadish)

Cassandra Clewicki

(Kadish Child)

Sloane Shelton

(Dot Miller)

Eduardo Machado

(Alfonso Ossorio)

Moss Roberts

(Ted Dragon)

Robert O'Neill

(Herbert Matter)

Isabelle Townsend

(Mercedes Matter)

Jennifer Piech

(Young Redhead)

Rebecca Wisocky

(Dorothy Seiberling)

Linda Emond

(Martha Holmes)

Tony Palazzolo

(Delivery Man)

Barbara Garrick

(Betty Parsons)

David Cale

(William Wright)

Claire Beckman

(Vita Peterson)

Stephen Beach

(Jay Pollock)

Jill Jackson

(Alma Pollock)

Donna Mitchell

(Elizabeth Pollock)

Sondra Jablonski

(Jeremy Pollock)

Frank Wood

(Frank Pollock)

Julie Anna Rose

(Marie Pollock)

Kyle Timothy Smith

(Jonathan Pollock)

April Petroski

(Karen Pollock)

Nicholas Petroski

(Jason Pollock)

Noah Petroski

(Jason Pollock)

Norbert Weisser

(Hans Namuth)

Sally Murphy

(Edith Metzger)

Bob L. Harris

(Veterinarian)

John Madigan

(News Broadcaster (voice))

Matthew Hart Landfield

(Newspaper Boy)

John Nesci

(East Hampton Police Officer)