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PR Grey Gardens on DVD July 14

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Grey Gardens (HBO) tells the tender and intimate story of "Little Edie" and "Big Edie" Beale, two charming eccentrics who were relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Out in stores from HBO Home Entertainment on July 14, 2009, the DVD includes an audio commentary with the executive producers and a featurette comparing and contrasting the film with the original 1975 documentary.

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Grey Gardens (HBO)
Inside the Incredible World of Jackie O's Relatives

In Stores, Exclusively from HBO Home Entertainment® on July 14, 2009

DVD Includes an Audio Commentary with the Executive Producers and a Featurette That Compares and Contrasts the Film With the Original 1975 Documentary




New York, NY, June 8, 2009 – Highlighted by memorable performances from two-time Golden Globe® nominee Drew Barrymore (Guncrazy, Irreconcilable Differences) and two-time Academy Award® winner Jessica Lange (Tootsie, Blue Sky), the HBO Films drama Grey Gardens (HBO) tells the tender and intimate story of "Little Edie" and "Big Edie" Beale, two charming eccentrics who were relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Out in stores from HBO Home Entertainment on July 14, 2009, the DVD includes an audio commentary with the executive producers and a featurette comparing and contrasting the film with the original 1975 documentary.

Filmmakers Albert and David Maysles catapulted the two women from virtual obscurity to cult status in the 1975 documentary that showed the mother and daughter living in squalor and near isolation in their decaying 28-room mansion. Thirty-five years later and interested in what transpired in the years before the documentary, director/writer Michael Sucsy's original story for Grey Gardens (HBO) offers a wry, behind-the-scenes look at the reclusive Beales that spans over four decades. Using the documentary of the same name as a framework, the film focuses on the downward spiral of their lives – from their glamorous, high society days in the 30's to the 70's and the circumstance behind their dwindling wealth and grasp on reality – and eventual financial rescue by their niece and cousin, Jackie O.

Grey Gardens (HBO) co-stars Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love® from HBO) as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ken Howard (Michael Clayton) as Phelan Beale, Malcolm Gets (Caroline in the City) as George "Gould" Strong, Daniel Baldwin (Mulholland Falls) as Julius "Cap" Krug, and Arye Gross (Gone in Sixty Seconds) and Justin Louis (Saw IV and V) as the Maysles brothers. Teleplay by Michael Sucsy and Patricia Rozema, directed by Michael Sucsy, executive produced by Lucy Barzun Donnelly, Rachael Horovitz and Michael Sucsy, and produced by David Coatsworth.

Additional DVD Content
Grey Gardens (HBO) includes:
• Audio commentary with executive producers Michael Sucsy, Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Rachael Horovitz.
• "Grey Gardens: Then and Now" – a featurette that compares and contrasts the HBO Film with the Maysles documentary and includes clips from the documentary as well as enlightening interviews with Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange and the Emmy®-winning director of the documentary Albert Maysles.

Grey Gardens (HBO)
DVD
Street Date: July 14, 2009 (timed to coincide with Emmy® Award nominations)
Order Date: June 9, 2009
Rating: TV-PG
Runtime: Approx. 104 Minutes
Price: $26.98 DVD Suggested Retail Price

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Posted by: News Editor - June 10, 2009, 6:54 am - PR
Keywords: drama, television