A bitter, proud Scottish widow decides to tick an important item off her bucket list before moving into a retirement home in “Edie,” an uneven dramedy from U.K. commercials helmer Simon Hunter, ...

This image released by Music Box Films shows Sheila Hancock in a scene from "Edie." (Pascoe Morrissey/Music Box Films via AP) This image released by Music Box Films shows Sheila Hancock in a scene ...

“Grey Gardens,” the 1975 documentary about “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” Beale, two reclusive relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy, has become an uneasy sort of classic, spawning both a 2006 Broadway ...

Edie, as played by Sheila Hancock, is a bit of a forbidding crag herself. She has spent her life at the beck and call of a controlling husband who for 30 years was silenced by a stroke. In the first ...

Allow me to introduce my friend Walter Newkirk. Fascinating character, our Walter. He is an author and producer somewhere way down deep in New Jersey, and he is most famous, at least for our purposes, ...

In the northwest of Scotland, there stands a glacier-carved mountain called Suilven. Climbing it is not for the timid. But that's not a word that describes the unusual heroine determined to conquer ...