Being There
Film1979130 min7.6/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Hal Ashby
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Peter SellersChance
Shirley MacLaineEve Rand
Melvyn DouglasBenjamin Rand
Jack WardenPresident 'Bobby'
Richard DysartDr. Robert Allenby
Richard BasehartVladimir Skrapinov
Ruth AttawayLouise
David ClennonThomas Franklin
Fran BrillSally HayesDenise DuBarry
Denise DuBarryJohanna Franklin
Alice HirsonFirst Lady
Jerome HellmanGary BurnsExplore the crew
- Producer
- Charles Mulvehill
- Original Music Composer
- Johnny Mandel
- Screenplay
- Jerzy Kosiński
- Director
- Hal Ashby
- Editor
- Don Zimmerman
- Director of Photography
- Caleb Deschanel
- Producer
- Andrew Braunsberg