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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama
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Director:
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Michael Sucsy
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Actors:
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Ben Carlson,
Malcolm Gets,
Neil Babcock,
Kevin Etherington,
Neil Girvan,
Louis Grise,
Daniel Baldwin,
Drew Barrymore,
Marcia Bennett,
Arye Gross
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Duration:
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104 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)101
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Plot Summary:
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Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first off cousin of Jackie Onassis (both named Edith Bouvier Beale aka "Giving and Not enough Edie") raised as Commons Avenue d?butantes but who withdrew from New York society, taking shelter at their Elongated Island summer home, "Old Gardens." As their wealth and contact with the out of doors world dwindled, so did their follow on fact. They were reintroduced to the area when worldwide tabloids learned of a health part forage on their impress upon, and Jackie swooped in to save her relatives.
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Grey Gardens
Fly on the wall documentary about an eccentric, poverty-stricken East Hampton mother and daughter who also happen to be the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Filmed in 1973 by the makers of Salesman and Gimme Shelter, the Maysles brothers
At the end of the 1960s and the start of the 1970s, Albert and David Maysles led a quiet revolution in documentary filmmaking. Salesman, their 1969 account of travelling Bible vendors was a brilliantly assembled portrait of blue collar America as the country's economy begin to fray. Gimme Shelter, their 1970 film about the Rolling Stones' doomed concert at Altamont, has passed into history as the moment when the hippy dream ran up against the grim reality of the underground's violent ov...
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