Filmmaker Rory Kennedy interviews her mother, Ethel Kennedy, who discusses family, marriage and politics.
Directed by Rory Kennedy
woman director
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Letterboxd
3.6 / 5
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Cast
Rory Kennedy
Narrator (voice)
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage)
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Self
Jacqueline Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
Self (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Ted Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Joseph McCarthy
Self (archive footage)
Edward R. Murrow
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Rory Kennedy
Director
Buddy Squires
Director of Photography
Miriam Cutler
Music
Popular Reviews
4 reviews
Maggie
Good for her feeding RFK Jr. bananas cooked in Vaseline
Good for her feeding RFK Jr. bananas cooked in Vaseline
Sam Gautreaux
3.0★ · 10/26/25
for a film named ethel i fear i learned so much more about jack and robert . . obviously the film is biased with her daughter being the filmmaker but the topics not discussed it feels like a documentary about this family through rose colored glasses . . if you want alcohol poisoning take a shot anytime they say mommy or daddy . . i desperately need coding that states how many times daddy & mommy are stated & the percentage that “daddy”’s story is focused versus ethel’s
for a film named ethel i fear i learned so much more about jack and robert . . obviously the film is biased with her daughter being the filmmaker but the topics not discussed it feels like a documentary about this family through rose colored glasses . . if you want alcohol poisoning take a shot anytime they say mommy or daddy . . i desperately need coding that states how many times daddy & mommy are stated & the percentage that “daddy”’s story is focused versus ethel’s
