Being There (1979)
A story of chance.
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.
- Date of release
- 1979-12-19
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (1175)
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Hal Ashby
Casting
- 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
- Denise DuBarry — Johanna Franklin
- Alice Hirson — First Lady
- Jerome Hellman — Gary Burns
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