Grey Gardens
Release Date: 2008 - Wide Release
Distributor: HBO Films
Film Genre: Drama
Country: United States
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The fact-based drama about two eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy who made headlines when the health department threatened to raid their flea- and raccoon-infested East Hampton, N.Y., estate. Barrymore will play Little Edie, and Lange will play her mother, Big Edie Bouvier Beale, the socialite cousin and aunt, respectively, of Kennedy Onassis. The Edies made headlines around the world when Jackie O herself materialized to rescue her family from public disgrace. The film will cover 40 years. Kennedy Onassis will be a character in the film, as will Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn, who bought the crumbling mansion from Little Edie after her mother's death. Jeanne Tripplehorn will play Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
TRIVIA
The Edies were then the subjects of Grey Gardens, a 1976 documentary by David and Albert Maysles, whose rights will be part of the movie package.