Watch this when
Grey Gardens
When you love your mom and you've also built your whole life around her 🏚️
Who it's for
A mother and her adult daughter, relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, have lived together for decades in a crumbling East Hampton mansion.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary directed by Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer. It follows Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The two live together in poverty and isolation at Grey Gardens, their decaying East Hampton mansion.
Where to find it
The Criterion Collection (DVD/Blu-ray special edition, 2006); streaming availability rotates, check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Squalor and mother-daughter conflict.
Age: Not verified (suggested 13+)
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, “On Marriage”
