| What a delightfully strange and well acted biography | | | | The mother and daughter pair continue to live an |
| of the Bouvier clan. The lead characters played by | | | | extravagant and theatrical life until Phelan Beale dies |
| Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange are fodder for | | | | and they are left with little money. Big Edie and Little |
| rich and layered performances. | | | | Edie live a symbiotic life with both dependant on each |
| The writers Michael Sucsy and Patricia Rozema | | | | other emotionally. Grey Gardens becomes shabby and |
| deliver a complex story with interesting and odd ball | | | | in ill repair over the years. The pair continue to live their |
| characters. Director Michael Sucsy (Katherine) does | | | | odd life style and the house is overrun with cats, |
| an excellent job of bringing us up close and personal | | | | raccoons and fleas and they are without running water |
| view of these off the wall characters. | | | | or electricity. They have no money. The interior of the |
| The story is about the residents of Grey Gardens, a | | | | house now is as shabby as the outside and they live in |
| house built around the turn of the century, and the | | | | squalid conditions. The conditions are brought to |
| Beale's who lived there for decades. | | | | national attention by an article in the National Enquirer. |
| Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale, Jessica Lange, | | | | This event brings the Suffolk County Health |
| and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, | | | | Department to inspect and they condemn Grey |
| Drew Barrymore, were the aunt and first cousin of | | | | Gardens. Fortunately, Jacqueline Onassis and her sister |
| Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. The story is told | | | | Lee Radziwill provided the necessary funds to |
| in the cinema verite style with characters telling their | | | | refurbish and repair the dilapidated house. |
| own story. Grey Gardens is a place full of music and | | | | The attention brings two documentary film makers |
| dance with Big Edie and Little Edie putting on | | | | Albert and David Maysles who are interested in their |
| performances for all their family and friends. This | | | | story and they film a documentary about the women. |
| Bohemian lifestyle is too much for Big Edie's husband | | | | Both Big Edie and Little Edie tell their own stories for |
| Phelan Beale and he leaves his wife with the house | | | | the camera. This documentary was released in 1976 |
| and a modest allowance to live on. | | | | and received many accolades. |