Directors: Ellen Hovde; Albert Maysles; David Maysles; Muffie Meyer

Keywords: Documentary, Biography

Very strange cinema vérité of the lives of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edie, living together in a decrepit 28 room mansion in the Hamptons. The elder Edith just happens to be first cousin of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and both women just happen to be mentally ill and lost in time. Viewers become privy to cats urinating on the bed, in-house raccoons, meals ice-cream-on-cracker, and endless babbling between the two batty women. The film can be difficult to watch sometimes but it is quite intriguing. A classic documentary.

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