Grey Gardens (1975)

Directed by Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer, Albert Maysles, David Maysles · Cinematography by Albert Maysles, David Maysles

PG95 min40 frames

Documentary

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

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