The story was familiar to me, having seen the original documentary (what I could stand to watch) and the play (disliked that, too), but this is sooooo much better. It helps the audience understand so much more what keeps these women here, the codependency relationship the mother/daughter have, the role the father played, how the documentary came about, and it has a most beautiful ending --------very poignant. You can tell the people putting this movie together were very passionate about the story they were telling and about the women Lange and Barrymore portray. There's a key line that the mother says to her daughter: "you're an acquired taste, babe" and I have to say, that's what I'd advise about this movie. This movie is an acquired taste. So I'm not sure you'd like it, but I found it very amusing. And I esp. like the added scene with Jackie Kennedy ---- after all, that's why they were in the news and people were interested in the Beale's anyway. It just answers the questions that the documentary/play raised, and so there's a reason for this film, and I like that, too. I was worried it was going to be a redone of the documentary and it was far from it!
Grey Gardens(2009) Based on a true story, this made-for-TV, Emmy-winning drama stars Jessica Langeand Drew Barrymore as the aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy Onassis (Jeanne Tripplehorn), both named Edie Beale, who retreat from tony Manhattan society to a mansion in East Hampton, N.Y. After years in isolation, the women are thrust into the spotlight when journalists report on a series of health inspections that find the house -- and its owners -- in shocking disarray. Ken Howard co-stars.
- I gave it a 4.
