The Beales of Grey Gardens

Name: The Beales of Grey Gardens
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Released: 2006-07-21
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 8.2
Cast: Edith Bouvier Beale, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Jerry Torre, Lois Wright

2006·Documentary·1h 31m

8.2

★

Mother and daughter - Big Edie and Little Edie Beale - live with six cats in a crumbling house in East Hampton. Little Edie, in her 50s, who wears scarves and bright colors, sings, mugs for the camera, and talks to Al and David Maysles, the filmmakers. Big Edie, in her 70s, recites poetry, comments on her daughter's behavior, and sings "If I Loved You" in fine voice. She talks in short sentences; her daughter in volumes. The film is episodic: friends visit, there's a small fire in the house, Little Edie goes to the shore and swims. She talks about the Catholic Church. She's ashamed that local authorities raided the house because of all the cats. She values being different.

Directed by David Maysles and Albert Maysles

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Cast

Edith Bouvier Beale

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Albert Maysles

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David Maysles

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Jerry Torre

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Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale

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Crew

David Maysles

Director

Albert Maysles

Director

Ian Markiewicz

Editor

Albert Maysles

Director of Photography

Popular Reviews

16 reviews

Timothy Kandra

Here’s hoping that by this point next year, things will be much better than they are. Good riddance 2025.

Alexandra

10.0★ · 11/01/25

Getting into character for my belated halloween costume tonight I’m going method

Ben

7.7★ · 06/09/25

It’s more Grey Gardens

brunettegsundae

10.0★ · 02/21/25

I could hear Edie talking every single day of my entire life.
Edie is sadly fascinating, a woman who lives in her past, who dreams about the future she could have had. A woman who, even without money for new clothes, could create enchanting outfits. And a woman who, even after “losing” her big opportunity, never let go of her dreams of becoming free.

Brendon

5.0★ · 08/07/24

The ending of The Bealed of Grey Gardens would have been perfect as the finale of the original film. It pissed me off, especially because that was the one element of this film that actually enticed some sort of conversation and emablance of the thought-provoking Grey Gardens. While this film did contain a bunch of the stuff I liked from the first, mainly the conversations between Edith and Little Edie, but there is nothing that justified the reason to return to this story. They didn't elaborate on anything from the original and felt like a supplement or deleted scenes complication. I honestly didn't expect anything else though.