Grey Gardens (2009)

"My mother gave me a completely priceless life". Little Edie Beale, 1917-2002.

In 1973, filmmakers Albert and David Maysles entered the strange world of "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, two charming eccentrics who were relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Spending six weeks with the reclusive mother and daughter who chose to live in squalor and almost total isolation in a decaying, 28-room mansion in East Hampton, the Maysles captured their day-to-day life in its raw, uncensored, captivatingly honest moments for a documentary entitled Grey Gardens. Little did anyone know that the 100-minute documentary would catapult the two women from virtual obscurity to cult status as their legacy grew in depth and stature over the years.

Thirty-five years later, using the documentary as a framework, Michael Sucsy and Patricia Rozema's original story for Grey Gardens offers a wry, behind-the-scenes look at the Beales and their unique mother-daughter bond.

Told over the span of four decades, the film focuses on their glamorous and well-heeled lives long before the making of the documentary and on the circumstances behind their riches-to-rags story.

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Writers: Patricia Rozema, Michael Suscy

Director: Michael Suscy

Cinematography: Mike Eley

Music: Rachel Portman

Principal Cast: Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange, Malcolm Gets, Daniel Baldwin, Ken Howard, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Executive Producers: Lucy Barzun Donnelly, Rachael Horovitz, Michael Sucsy

Producer: David Coatsworth