2 Movies Directed by Ed Harris

Pollock

Pollock

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-03-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

122 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(21890 Reviews)

Director:

Ed Harris

Cast:

Writer:

Steven Naifeh (book)

Gregory White Smith (book)

Barbara Turner (screenplay)

Susan Emshwiller (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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.

Appaloosa

Appaloosa

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-10-03

Languages:

English, Apache languages, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (48121 Reviews)

Director:

Ed Harris

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Knott (screenplay)

Ed Harris (screenplay)

Robert B. Parker (novel)

Fullplot:

1882, New Mexico Territory. Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are itinerant lawmen, hired by desperate towns as marshal and deputy. The city fathers of Appaloosa hire them after Randall Bragg, a newly-arrived rancher with money and a gang of thugs, disrupts commerce and kills three local lawmen. Cole and Hitch contrive to arrest Bragg and bring him to trial, but hanging him proves difficult. Meanwhile, a widow has arrived in town, Allison French, pretty, refined, and good-natured. Virgil falls hard, and it seems mutual, but there may be more to Allie than meets the eye. Can friendship and skill with a gun overcome a pernicious villain and green-eyed jealousy?

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