It is the story of an old mother and her middle-aged daughter, aunt and cousin Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis are experiencing a new unique experience. They live with the hope of a different experience by living with a whimsical life in a dirty, decomposing palace in East Hampton.
The beauty of this film is the dignity it imparts to the Beales, trapped in their pasts. They failed to launch, yet paradoxically, they continue to fly so high.
Grey Gardens became a cult film in the '70s, when mavericks and outsiders were the heroes and heroines and the Beales were valued for their alternative world and their priceless eccentricity.
