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Meet Big and Little Edie Beale—high-society dropouts, mother and daughter, reclusive cousins of Jackie O.—thriving together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. An impossibly intimate portrait and an eerie echo of the Kennedy Camelot, Albert and David Maysles’s 1976 Grey Gardens quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen.

1976 · 1h 35m

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Grey Gardens

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Meet Big and Little Edie Beale—high-society dropouts, mother and daughter, reclusive cousins of Jackie O.—thriving together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. An impossibly intimate portrait and an eerie echo of the Kennedy Camelot, Albert and David Maysles’s 1976 Grey Gardens quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen.

COMMON SENSE

Tragicomic docu of aging eccentrics won't appeal to kids.

TOMATOMETER
Average 8.6
Reviews 36
Fresh 34
Rotten 2

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Studio
The Criterion Collection
Released
1976
Run Time
1 hr 35 min
Rated
PG
Region of Origin
United States
© 1976, 2001 Maysles Films Inc.

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (United States) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), English (United States) (SDH)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.