The film recounts the sad, interwoven declines of socialite Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her aspiring actress-singer-dancer daughter, Edith Bouvier Beale—a.k.a. “Big Edie” and “Little Edie.” Their story became a tabloid fixture in 1971 after town officials in East Hampton, N.Y., tried to evict them from their ramshackle mansion, Grey Gardens. Why did anyone outside the Hamptons care? Because the impoverished Beales, 76 and 54 at the time, happened to be the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.

Flashback to 1975. The Maysles brothers’ (Albert and David) Grey Gardens documentary.

Fast forward to 2006. The Beales of Grey Gardens, a sort of alternate take on Grey Gardens from the same filmmakers (though David Maysles died in 1987).

Fast forward to April 18, 2009. Michael Sucsy and HBO present a biopic version of Grey Gardens starring Drew Barrymore as Little Edie and Jessica Lange as Big Edie.

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