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The Oscar and Academy Award nominated film “Pollock” (Sony Classics, 2001) is a biopic of the life of modernist artist Jackson Pollock. Directed by and staring Ed Harris as the lead character, Pollock. Already knowing the basic background and story of Jackson Pollock, I started watching this movie with the hopes to learn more, but that goal was not able to be achieved. This film summarizes only fifteen years of Pollock’s like, the years that most everyone knows about. The film opens in 1949 with a close-up of Pollock’s paint-caked hands signing an autograph on the issue of “Life” magazine that featured his work. At this moment, he is on a pedestal in the art world and from his clear, placid gaze he seems to be content and in control. The film later returns to this scene to demonstrate that it was only a momentary calm in the storm of Pollock's life. In the second scene the movie rolls back the clock, showing Pollock in a depressed and drunken rage over his jealous admiration of Picasso. The juxtaposition of these two episodes sets the erratic mood for the film, which begins in earnest in 1941 when he meets artist Krasner, his lover and professional partner who helped launch his reputation