1975 | United States | Documentary

Grey Gardens

  • English 95 mins
  • Director | Albert Maysles, Muffie Meyer, Ellen Hovde, David Maysles
  • Producer | Albert Maysles, David Maysles
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This film explores the daily lives of two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. During the course of the documentary, they discuss their habits, desires and former loves with filmmakers Albert and David Maysles. 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.

age aging eccentric habit desire misfit personality