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Grey Gardens
An old mother and her middle-aged daughter, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, live their eccentric lives in a filthy, decaying mansion in East Hampton.
10 January 1931, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
5 October 1896, New Jersey, USA
26 November 1926, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
31 May 1898, Bowersville, Ohio, USA
7 November 1917, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
April 18, 2016
The film resists a focus on the eponymous house's restoration, instead representing the women's chaotic lives as a non-linear series of moments.March 05, 2015
Watch 'Grey Gardens' long enough and the question of exploitation drops, leaving potential victims to become real people.March 04, 2015
The beauty of this film is the dignity it imparts to the Beales, trapped in their pasts. They failed to launch, yet paradoxically, they continue to fly so high.March 02, 2015
The Maysles and the Beales are equally culpable in giving the film its goon-show edge, which undoubtedly accounts for its pull on some audiences.March 02, 2015
Rarely have high spirits and theatrical energy seemed like such a tragic waste; an era and its myths seem to be dying on-screen in real time.April 30, 2015
Classic ...January 04, 2007
Grey Gardens became a cult film in the '70s, when mavericks and outsiders were the heroes and heroines and the Beales were valued for their alternative world and their priceless eccentricity.March 03, 2015
Richly detailed and boundlessly evocative, even at its most claustrophobic.April 14, 2016
As tender and revealing as it is completely bonkers.December 12, 2013
GREY GARDENS is an American classic.August 06, 2015
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.March 05, 2015
Old-money outcasts, or dropouts by lifestyle choice, the Beale ladies are not condescended to, smirked at or exhibited.