Ellen Hovde

Grey Gardens

Muffie Meyer, David Maysles

Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale

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.

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Muffie Meyer, Mirra Bank

Maria Tucci, Kevin Bacon

This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now divorced. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, a childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an affair with a young cab driver and finds herself pregnant.

The Burks of Georgia

Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer

The Maysles profile a poor white Georgian family struggling to survive with the realities of thirteen children.

The Crash of 1929

Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer

Philip Bosco, Reuben L. Cain

Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich. But when reality finally struck, the consequences of such unbound optimism shocked the world.