All time Maysles classic documentary GREY GARDENS is the unbelievable but true story of Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie. Mother and daughter live in a world of their own in their decaying 28-room East Hampton mansion known as "Grey Gardens", a place so far gone that the local authorities once threatened to evict them for violating building and sanitation codes. The incident made national headlines, American royalty, living in squalor!
The Beales were nothing short of the upper crust. Mrs. Beale, a.k.a. "Big Edie," was a born aristocrat sister of "Black Jack" Bouvier, Jackie O's father. "Little Edie" was an aspiring actress of striking beauty who put her New York life on hold to care for her mother - and never left her side again. Together they descended into a strange life of dependence and eccentricity that no one had ever shared until the Maysles arrived with their camera and tape recorder. The women bicker, prattle, and flirt like characters out of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. The film is a bittersweet love story, a record of the powerful and complex relationship between mother and daughter.
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