Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens - DVD (2009)

You may know the story of the Older Mrs Edith Bouvier Beale and her daugher little Edie (same name as her mum), who were cousins of Jacqueline Kennedy, it is one of those stories that was tucked away at the back of the Womans Weekly every year or so. Little Edie was a beauty as a young woman, but after the breakdown of parents mother, and her increasingly frail mental health she moves in with her mother in a once beautiful home in the East Hamptons, outside of New York.

As the years go by, the house becomes more ramshackle and the two women end up living with a raccoon and many cats, with the health department and reporters becoming increasingly curious. Two young men in the 1970's ask if they can make a documentry about the mother and daughter pair. It is this documentry that the movie is based on, with flashbacks to their earlier life.

I enjoyed Drew Barrymore, she always make me smile with her performances and she tones down her usual cutieness to give us a more grown up role. Jessica Lange is also sterling in the job of a mother from your nightmares.

3/5 - I liked it, but didn't love it, probably Drews outfits and hair were the most memorable thing about the movie.