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Ed Harris not only directed, produced and acted in this 2000 biographical drama about the life of one of America’s most celebrated artists, he did all the painting himself too. “Jack the Dripper’s” innovative painting technique and crippling personal problems splattered, flicked and flung him to fame in the late 1940s as “the greatest living painter in the United States.” While another story about an alcoholic, manic-depressive artist sounds clichéd, an Academy Award winning performance from Marcia Gay Harden as the abstract expressionist’s long-suffering wife helped this biopic make a splash.
