Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
Genres:
Documentary
Release:
February 1976
Production:
Portrait Films, Maysles Films
Cast:
Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers, Norman Vincent Peale, Jack Helmuth, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Jerry Torre, Lois Wright
Tags:
cat, long island, new york, eccentric, mansion, recluse, raccoon, woman director, eccentric family, direct cinema, hamptons, mother daughter relationship, familiar
