Being There

Being There

130 mins | Drama, Comedy | Dec. 19, 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.

Being There

130 mins | Drama, Comedy | Dec. 19, 1979

Being There
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.
IMDb rating 7.9
Producers United Artists, Lorimar Film Entertainment, NatWest Ventures, New Gold Entertainment, Northstar Media, BSB, CIP
Original title Being There
Directors Hal Ashby
Writers Jerzy Kosiński, Robert C. Jones

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

John Harkins

as Sidney Courtney

James Noble

as Kaufman

Hal Ashby

as Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)