Being There (1979)

Being There

7.6	Listal rating
8	IMDB rating

Directed by

Hal Ashby

Starring (View all)

Peter Sellers

Chance

Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine

Eve Rand

Melvyn Douglas

Benjamin Rand

Jack Warden

President 'Bobby'

Richard Dysart

Dr. Robert Allenby

Richard Basehart

Richard Basehart

Vladimir Skrapinov

Ruth Attaway

Louise

David Clennon

Thomas Franklin

Written by

Jerzy Kosinski

(novel)

Robert C. Jones

Robert C. Jones

uncredited

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Description: 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. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential ... (more)

Release date : 19 December 1979
UPC: 012569093829

Comedy (15), Satire (9), 1970s (8), Drama (6), Lawyer (6), 1979 (6), Political (5), Terminal Illness (5), Wealth (5), Servant (5), Lake (5), Wheelchair (5), Television (5), Gardener (5), Billionaire (5), Innocence (4), Marriage (4), Simpleton (3), Usa (3), Presidential Visit (3)

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