Being There

Name: Being There
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1979
Duration: 130 min
Rating: 7.593

1979 · 130 min

Comedy · Drama

★ 7.6

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Trailer

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

Crew

Director Hal Ashby
Screenplay Jerzy Kosiński
Director of Photography Caleb Deschanel

Cast

Peter Sellers
Chance
Shirley MacLaine
Eve Rand
Melvyn Douglas
Benjamin Rand
Jack Warden
President 'Bobby'
Richard Dysart
Dr. Robert Allenby
Richard Basehart
Vladimir Skrapinov
Ruth Attaway
Louise
David Clennon
Thomas Franklin
Fran Brill
Sally Hayes
D
Denise DuBarry
Johanna Franklin
Alice Hirson
First Lady
Jerome Hellman
Gary Burns

Crew

Director — Hal Ashby
Screenplay — Jerzy Kosiński
Director of Photography — Caleb Deschanel

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Intermission

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