Synopsis
Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of
Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary by Albert and David
Maysles, codirected by
Ellen Hovde and
Muffie Meyer, quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen.