

Being There
1979 • 2h 10m • Comedy, Drama
95%Rotten Tomatoes
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.
- Director
- Hal Ashby
- Writers
- Jerzy Kosiński
- Status
- Released
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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
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