Grey Gardens

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Actors: Edith Bouvier Beale , Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Be , Norman Vincent Peale , Brooks Hyers

Director: Albert Maysles Ellen Hovde

IMDB Rate: 7.8 out of 10 (2601 votes)

Plot Summary:The Maysles brothers pay visits to Edith Bouvier Beale, nearing 80, and her daughter Edie. Reclusive, the pair live with cats and raccoons in Grey Gardens, a crumbling mansion in East Hampton. Edith is dry and quick-witted - a singer, married but later separated, a member of high society. Edie is voluble, dresses - as she puts it - for combat in tight ensembles that include scarves wrapped around her head. There are hints that Edie came home 24 years before to be cared for rather than to care for her mother. The women address the camera, talking over each other, moving from the present to events years before. Theyre odd, with flinty affection for each other.