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?" Already well-known in the New York art world, he had become a household name-America''s first "Art Star"-and his bold and radical style of painting continued to change the course of modern art. But the torments that had plagued the artist all of his life-perhaps the ones that drove him to paint in the first place, or that helped script his fiercely original art-continued to haunt him. 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 that would threaten to destroy the foundations of his marriage, the promise of his career, and his life-all on one deceptively calm and balmy summer night in 1956.

Directed by
Ed Harris

Cast
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock
Marcia Gay Harden - Lee Krasner
Amy Madigan - Peggy Guggenheim
Jennifer Connelly - Ruth Kligman
Jeffrey Tambor - Clement Greenberg
Bud Cort - Howard Putzel
John Heard - Tony Smith
Val Kilmer - Willem de Kooning
Stephanie Seymour - Helen Frankenthaler

Production Co.
Zeke Productions
Fred Berner Films
Brant-Allen Films

Produced by
Peter M. Brant
Joseph Allen (IV)
Fred Berner

Studio
Sony Pictures Classics

Writer
Steven Naifeh
Gregory White Smith

Music
Jeff Beal