Being There (1979)
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.
- Released
- 1979-12-19
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Jerzy Kosiński, Hal Ashby
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 from 1175 votes
Cast
- Peter Sellers as Chance
- Shirley MacLaine as Eve Rand
- Melvyn Douglas as Benjamin Rand
- Jack Warden as President 'Bobby'
- Richard Dysart as Dr. Robert Allenby
- Richard Basehart as Vladimir Skrapinov
- Ruth Attaway as Louise
- David Clennon as Thomas Franklin
- Fran Brill as Sally Hayes
- Denise DuBarry as Johanna Franklin
- Alice Hirson as First Lady
- Jerome Hellman as Gary Burns