Grey Gardens
“She was the girl who had everything - Money, good looks and social position. Her mother - a classic Bouvier beauty. Now they are living amongst the souvenirs of their lives. In Grey Gardens. This is their story. A love story. Sort of.”
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
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2 films
Cast
9 people
Edith Bouvier Beale
Self
Also in
Storyville
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale
Self
Brooks Hyers
Self
Norman Vincent Peale
Self
Jack Helmuth
Self (uncredited)
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The Procedure
May the Best Man Win
Albert Maysles
Self (uncredited)
Also in
The Maysles Brothers
David Maysles
Self (uncredited)
Also in
The Maysles Brothers
Jerry Torre
Self (uncredited)
Lois Wright
Self (uncredited)
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A Little Chaos
In the Shadows of Grey Gardens
Albert Maysles Director · Ellen Hovde Director David Maysles Director
Worldwide gross $42K · Budget $500K · United States release February 19, 1976
Box office
Budget
$500,000
Worldwide gross
$41,702
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Production
Portrait Films
Production
Maysles Films
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · September 27, 1975
Premiere · New York Film Festival
United States · February 19, 1976
Limited theatrical
United States
April 9, 1976 · Premiere · USA Film Festival
March 6, 2015 · Limited theatrical · New York City; digital restoration
April 19, 2015 · Premiere · Sarasota Film Festival
Australia
August 8, 2015 · Premiere · Melbourne International Film Festival
Canada
October 23, 1976 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
Czechia
July 4, 2004 · Premiere · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Finland
April 20, 2005 · TV
France
April 19, 2019 · Premiere · Lyon Festival Hallucinations Collectives
Germany
May 14, 2006 · Premiere · Cologne
Greece
March 7, 2001 · Premiere · Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
September 18, 2009 · Premiere · Athens Film Festival
Israel
July 10, 2015 · Premiere · Jerusalem Film Festival
Italy
June 6, 2015 · Premiere · Biografilm Festival
Netherlands
November 18, 2011 · Premiere · IDFA Festival
Portugal
May 26, 2026 · Premiere · Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema
Russia
June 7, 2018 · Theatrical · Beat Film Festival
United Kingdom
May 19, 1976 · Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
April 30, 2007 · Physical
June 11, 2011 · Premiere · Sheffield DocFest
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