Grey Gardens (2009 film)

Grey Gardens is an HBO film about the lives of Edith Bouvier BealeLittle Edie, played by Drew Barrymore, and her mother Edith Ewing BouvierBig Edie, played by Jessica Lange. Costars include Jeanne Tripplehorn as Jacqueline Kennedy Little Edies cousin and Ken Howard as Phelan Beale Little Edies father. The film, directed by Michael Sucsy and cowritten by Sucsy and Patricia Rozema, flashes back and forth between various events and dates ranging from Little Edie as a young dbutante in 1936 moving with her mother to their Grey Gardens estate through the filming and premiere of the actual 1975 documentary Grey Gardens.

The film is based on the life stories of the eccentric paternal aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy, both named Edith Bouvier Beale. The elder Edith Bouvier Beale was the sister of Jackie Kennedys father John Vernou Bouvier III and was referred to as Big Edie, her daughter was referred to as Little Edie. The Beale women were members of NYC high society, but in their later years, withdrew from the New York City life, taking shelter at their Long Island summer homeestate Grey Gardens. The house eventually fell into a state of disrepair that gave the Beale women notoriety.Phelan Beale husband of Big Edie and father of Little Edie, eventually divorced Big Edie. In the movie, Little Edie decides to move to New York to pursue a career in acting as well as an illfated romance with a highprofile married man. Little Edie sadly and slowly realizes her fate is to remain her mothers companion at Grey Gardens. The two women become reclusive and known around town as the highly eccentric proprietors of Grey Gardens, which has become decrepit and full of stray animals taken in by the Beale women. The plot includes the filming of the documentary Grey Gardens by Albert and David Maysles as well as events in the Beales past, including their arrival at the estate, the disintegration of Big Edies marriage, Little Edies failed attempts to have her own life, and events subsequent to the premiere of the documentary. ........

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