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  • 2006
  • PG-13
  • Picturehouse
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2006
  • PG-13
  • Picturehouse
  • 1 h 14 m

Summary When Teri Horton, a 73-year-old former long-haul truck driver with an eighth grade education, bought a painting in a thrift shop for five dollars, she didn't know that it would pit her against the highest and mightiest people in the art world and perhaps change forever the way art is authenticated. This rollicking adventure story documen...

Directed By: Harry Moses

Written By: Harry Morgan Moses

  • 2006
  • PG-13
  • Picturehouse
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2006
  • PG-13
  • Picturehouse
  • 1 h 14 m

Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?

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Summary When Teri Horton, a 73-year-old former long-haul truck driver with an eighth grade education, bought a painting in a thrift shop for five dollars, she didn't know that it would pit her against the highest and mightiest people in the art world and perhaps change forever the way art is authenticated. This rollicking adventure story documen...

Directed By: Harry Moses

Written By: Harry Morgan Moses

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Horton's attempt to authenticate the painting in the face of a hostile art establishment becomes a study in forensics, taste, money, and class warfare.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
80
Fascinatingly ambiguous tale and bizarre cast of characters make it one of the more entertaining documentaries in recent memory.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
75
Though the film does have the modest, human-interest feel of a "60 Minutes" segment, it grows stronger as it goes along.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
75
The movie is an entertaining stroll through a colorful gallery of characters including, in villain mode, former Metropolitan Museum of Art director Thomas Hoving. "She knows nothing. I am an expert," huffs Hoving, who is so nasty he might as well be wearing a monocle - making Horton that much more fun to root for.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
70
As this smart, hard-bitten woman with an eighth-grade education pursues her quest, the documentary portrays the debate between connoisseurship and science as a culture war.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
58
The real star of the film is Horton, whose straight-talking ways and supportive circle of friends are a stark contrast to the haughty insults of academia.
By Marc Mohan FULL REVIEW
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Pollock drags when Horton's offscreen, and with its NPR-inflected narration and executive producer Don Hewitt, the film might have fared better as a PBS special.
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Production Company Hewitt Group, New Line Cinema
Release Date Nov 15, 2006
Duration 1 h 14 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline An Art Film
Website http://www.picturehouse.com/jacksonpollock/
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