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      PG Released Sep 27, 1975 1h 35m Documentary TRAILER for Grey Gardens: Trailer 1 List Grey Gardens: Trailer 1 Grey Gardens: Trailer 1 0:35 View more videos
      94% Tomatometer 35 Reviews 85% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings 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. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Buy Now

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      Edith and Edie Beale are eccentric subjects who offer a generous amount of themselves in Grey Gardens, an inquisitive and nonjudgmental exploration of the isolated socialites' lifestyle.

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      Charles Michener Film Comment Magazine An extraordinarily crafty invasion into the lives of Edith Beale and her daughter Edie. Apr 11, 2018 Full Review Kate Muir Times (UK) As tender and revealing as it is completely bonkers. Rated: 5/5 Apr 14, 2016 Full Review Mark Feeney Boston Globe Edith and Edie are like a toxic vaudeville team, joined not just by blood but affinity. They're three parts folie a deux to two parts shtick. Rated: 3.5/4 Aug 6, 2015 Full Review Mark Seneviratne Vague Visages Grey Gardens is a late-era accomplishment of what direct cinema had set out to be at the end of the 1950s. Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Jacqui Mac Gay Community News (Boston) A painful but poignant affirmation of life, rich in the kinds of socio-psychological truths that the camera rarely has the freedom to reveal. Sep 15, 2022 Full Review Connie McFeeley Los Angeles Free Press The Maysles Brothers (in this film, working with Hovde and Meyer) habitually put human beings on the screen and ask us, simply, to recognize them. For this reason alone, Grey Gardens warrants viewing and support. Oct 31, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Ben N So bizarre, poor Edie is stuck in her 20s. She goes about as though she is still about to make her big break and live in the city. She received no support from family for who she wanted to be, and money and standing isn't everything. Edith set her own table, and probably resented being left at home herself - and reaped the fall for her dalliances. Left with only each other, they craft a seemingly sad existence in a huge enviable property in the land of those who have. It is hard to watch at times with so much talking over each other. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/21/23 Full Review Tyler B You can't take your eyes off this movie. It's like watching a beautiful car wreck unfold before you eyes in slow motion. There's so much to learn from this real life horror of wealth and mental illness. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/14/23 Full Review David F A tremendous achievement in the documentary arts, and with such simple content, technology, and methods. This portrait of a mother and daughter living out their lives in a mansion ruin full of cats and raccoons as they sing and dance and reflect on their pasts and their present is nothing less than captivating every minute of the way. Full of staunch characters and great regional accents, it's theatrical, touching, moving, and everything a film should be. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/14/23 Full Review Kyle M Perceptually grasped the subject matter's prompt that's considered groundbreaking formatting it as direct cinema, but the presented topic is only momentous capture with no timeless relevancy besides the approach. Intriguing enough over the lifestyle that was newsworthy at the time as it compelled curiosity leading into this incredibly dated, debatably exploitive documentary with loss of pure engagement as the genre mowed it over the years. The story was recaptured in a televised biopic, being more instinctually informative with a rounded narrative structure and better attachment. A good, worthy takeaway from this documentary is the scenery surrounding the place of interest, while those inhabited then aren't healthy characters. (B-) Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/30/23 Full Review Dave S Related to Jackie Kennedy, Edith and Edie Beale, mother and daughter, have resigned themselves to a reclusive lifestyle, residing in a squalid and rundown Long Island mansion that has become overrun by dense vegetation, raccoons, cats, and a sense of decay. As life passes them by, they live in the past, reliving the joys and sorrows that led them to their sorry state of affairs. Grey Gardens, directed and produced by documentarians Albert and David Maysles, is a grim affair but strangely compelling, akin to watching a naked drunk stagger down a busy street – you wince while watching, but you watch nevertheless. Their antics and eccentricities do grow a bit tiresome after a while, but it's never dull and remains a cautionary tale about accepting life as it happens. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/09/23 Full Review Audience Member An interesting and oftentimes humorous look into the life of two former socialites who only have memories and regrets left to keep them company. These two cling to the past as much as they try to grasp on to the future, and its this dichotomy that really makes the movie move forward Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis 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.
      Director
      Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer
      Producer
      Albert Maysles, David Maysles
      Distributor
      Portrait Films
      Production Co
      Portrait Films
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Sep 27, 1975, Original
      Rerelease Date (Theaters)
      Mar 6, 2015
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 21, 2009
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $31.0K
      Runtime
      1h 35m
      Sound Mix
      Mono
      Aspect Ratio
      35mm
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