Being There

Being There (1979) Poster

Interactive Features for Being There

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Story Analysis

A gardener's innocent simplicity is misinterpreted as political genius, reshaping his life and those around him.

Comedy, Drama · 7.6/10 · 130 min · 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.

Credits

director

Hal Ashby
screenplay

Robert C. Jones
screenplay

Jerzy Kosiński
actor

as Chance

Peter Sellers
actor

as Eve Rand

Shirley MacLaine

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