While we don't see their actual deaths, the out of control moments leading up to them may be tense to some viewers. A few moments of violence are present, including a scene where several characters are killed in a car crash. Various characters have varying degrees of bad/disrespectful attitudes (some of them being strong), while some tense family moments involve a husband and wife in a strained marriage.
He also smokes throughout the film, while various other people also smoke. The protagonist is an alcoholic and is often seen drinking and/or drunk (when he's surly and disrespectful to others such as when he urinates in a fireplace during a party), while others also drink. A few sexually related comments are made, while a sexual encounter is seen (somewhat graphic with movement), as is the beginning of another one and other sex is implied/suggested. Profanity is listed as extreme due to at least 18 uses of the "f" word, while other expletives and colorful phrases are also used. OUR WORD TO PARENTS: The following is a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated drama. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). JEFFREY TAMBOR plays an art critic who helps and then befriends Pollock and uses some strong profanity and is apparently drunk in one scene.Ĭurious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit?.JENNIFER CONNELLY plays a young woman who has an affair with Pollock in his later years.AMY MADIGAN plays a famous art collector and gallery owner who often has a surly and conceited attitude and has sex with Pollock in one scene.She smokes and briefly uses strong profanity. MARCIA GAY HARDEN plays his lover and then wife who mostly gives up her career to support and promote his.He has sex with several women (including an affair while still married), lives with Lee before marrying her, and is often self-absorbed and surly (particularly when drunk). ED HARRIS plays the famous abstract painter who uses strong profanity and is a chain smoker and alcoholic.WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R For language and brief sexuality. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Unless they're fans of someone in the cast or artist Jackson Pollock, it's not very likely. From that point on, and as the years pass, Pollock becomes involved with another women, Ruth Kligman (JENNIFER CONNELLY), while trying to deal with his relationship with Lee as well as his fame and popularity and their inevitable waning. There, his work flourishes, although his drinking and temper put a strain on their relationship and occasionally his work.
Equally impressed, she agrees to put on a one-man show for him in exchange for an amorous encounter and his agreeing to paint a mural in the entryway of her house.ĭespite the support of friends such as architect Tony Smith (JOHN HEARD) and artist Willem DeKooning (VAL KILMER), Pollock's show doesn't go over very well, with potential buyers and critics such as Clement Greenberg (JEFFREY TAMBOR) not sure of what to make of his work.ĭespite that and his drinking problem, Pollock's mural in Guggenheim's home is a success, and soon he and Lee move to Long Island for inspiration and an escape from the city. Howard is impressed with Pollock's work and soon has his boss meet the painter. Months later, the two are living together and one day Pollock's friend, Reuben Kadish (MATTHEW SUSSMAN) shows up with Howard Putzel (BUD CORT), the "front man" for art collector and gallery owner, Peggy Guggenheim (AMY MADIGAN). Inspired by surrealism, Pollock has begun to adopt a free, abstract style of painting that's drawn the attention of fellow painter, Lee Krasner (MARCIA GAY HARDEN). PLOT: It's Greenwich Village, 1941 and Jackson Pollock (ED HARRIS) is an American painter who's been working under the WPA Federal Art Project and living with his brother, Sande (ROBERT KNOTT), and his family.
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QUICK TAKE: Drama: A famous abstract painter tries coping with the various, conflicting aspects of both his personal and professional lives during the 1940s and '50s.
(2000) (Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden) (R)