Grey Gardens DVD

True glamour never fades

Thirty-five years after the Maysles brothers famed documentary of the same name, the Emmy Award -winning GREY GARDENS offers a wry, behind-thescenes look at Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, two charming eccentrics who were relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy O n a s s i s a n d i n h a b i t a n t s o f a d e c a y i n g mansion in the Hamptons. Emmy winner Jessica Lange and Emmy nominee Drew Barrymore star as the reclusive mother and daughter whose unconventional tastes and social rebellion transcended public opinion and forged a unique and unbreakable bond. Told over a span of four decades, the film, directed by Michael Sucsy from a script written by Sucsy and Patricia Rozema, focuses on their glamorous and well-heeled lives long before the making of the documentary and on the circumstances behind their riches-to-rags story.