Grey Gardens

  • 2009


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Average Rating 3.9/5
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Image zoom Peter Stranks/HBO Grey Gardens, HBOs dramatic retelling of the Maysles brothers classic documentary on Edith Big Edie Beale (Lange) and her .. EW
4.0
The film is strongest, though, when flashing back to portray mother and daughter before their descent, opening in the mid 1930s, when 18 year old Litt .. Variety
3.1
If you watch The Umbrellas of Cherbourg on Amazon Prime, the site will probably recommend you try out Jacques Demys subsequent The Little Girls of Roc ..
5.0
Grey Gardens is tragicomedy of a very rare and rarefied kind priceless, precious and, thanks largely to Lange, potentially unforgettable.
5.0
First, it was reality: two relatives of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy (both named Edie Bouvier Beale) fell into genteel, then Collyer Brothers style ruin in .. The Hollywood Reporter
5.0
Lange and Ms. Barrymore easily play eccentric beauties, but they are even better in the more complicated roles of crazy cat ladies. The New York Times
5.0
Its safe to say that this is a game changing performance by Drew Barrymore. E Film Critic
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Whether you know the Maysleses film or not, youll be astounded at the performances of Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore as Big and Little Edie. San Francisco Chronicle
2.0
In the 1975 Maysles brothers documentary that turned the Beales and their home into a sort of cult fascination, Little Edie came across as a caricatur .. Ny Daily News
4.5
Its a poignant tale of thwarted lives, and a thorough delight. Barrymore is especially compelling as a woman thwarted in love. The Globe And Mail
3.8
Aging into her 60s and transformed in voice and bearing, she finds Edies unquenchable spirit.Brava Rolling Stone
4.5
A wildly revised version of this venerable creative music ensemble makes a clean, beautiful new recording in the studio and live, with fresh music fro .. Pop Matters
2.0
Offbeat and bizarre yet extremely touching and entertaining, HBOs telefilm of love and co dependency, inspired by the Maysles seminal 1973 docu, has n .. Emanuellevy
3.5
, mansion.Its residentsa mother daughter act, faded beauties and disinherited socialites each called Edith Bouvier Bealewere the greatest crazy cat la .. Slate
4.4
The movie would almost doubtlessly have garnered Oscar nominations for its two stars had it been released theatrically. Aisle Seat
3.5
The heart that served Jason Stathams indestructible Chev Chelios so well in the original is literally yanked from his chest and plugged into a priapic .. La Weekly
5.0
Want more.Grey Gardens is an American tragedy, probing a twisted maze of mother daughter codependence and resentment. Cleve Land
4.5
Drew is never less than intoxicating and heartbreaking, as a maximum security gilded cage fantasy screen goddess hermit womanchild, wandering around i .. News Blaze
5.0
This is a performance that says, If you thought I was just sidekick material for Adam Sandler or Hugh Grant, think again. Vanity Fair
4.5
How strange, though, and how marvelous, to discover that a documentary camera is not always a reliable recorder, that it takes more than that to show .. Wsj
3.5
In 1973, Albert and David Maysles entered the reclusive world of the Bouvier Beales to film a documentary about these two eccentric relatives of Jacqu .. Hollywood Chicago
3.0
By the time the Maysles caught up with the Beales for a documentary that walked a very fine line between empathy and exploitation, the women were half .. Film Avclub
1.5
Michael Sucsy directs an HBO version that takes a little of this, a little of that, in building toward a (sort of) happy ending thats hard to swallow. Post Gazette
4.0
The film begins with the Maysles brothers (Arye Gross as Al, Justin Louis as David) screening their finished film for Big Edie (Jessica Lange) and Lit .. Dvd Talk
5.0
Anchored by amazing performances by Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore, the Grey Gardens that premieres tonight is, like its subjects, a brilliant, movi .. La Times
3.5
I bow to no one in my love for Barrymore, and in theory, she seems perfect for this HBO drama; herself the survivor of famous family dysfunction, Barr .. Ny Mag
4.5
Its an assured, beautiful movie a perfect crystallization of the endlessly fascinating story of the unconventional Beales. Knight At The Movies
4.4
That film memorably some would say voyeuristically cataloged the reclusive lives of Little Edie and her mother, Big Edie, former socialites, the cousi .. Usa Today 30
3.5
Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale of HBOs Grey Gardens are in this pantheon, a psychologically entwined mother and daughter who spent decades ste .. Boston Globe
3.0
Pedros life and legacy deserve a tribute, but one thats more consistently strong. Reality Blurred



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