Movie
Being There
1979PG2h 10m7.6 / 10
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
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.
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Synopsis
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.
More about Being There
Cast
Peter SellersChance
Shirley MacLaineEve Rand
Melvyn DouglasBenjamin Rand
Jack WardenPresident 'Bobby'
Richard DysartDr. Robert Allenby
Richard BasehartVladimir Skrapinov
Ruth AttawayLouise
David ClennonThomas FranklinCredits
- Directed by
- Hal Ashby
- Written by
- Jerzy Kosiński, Jerzy Kosiński
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Box office
- $30.2M
Production
- Northstar MediaUnited States
- Lorimar Motion PicturesUnited States
BSBUnited Kingdom- CIPUnited States
NatWest VenturesUnited Kingdom
Themes
ambivalentautismbaffledbased on novel or bookbotanistdignifiedidentityimpotence
