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Being There

A story of chance.

1979 · PG · 2h 10m

Directed by Hal Ashby

7.6

TMDB audience score
1,180 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • 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
    Gary Burns

  • John Harkins
    Sidney Courtney

  • James Noble
    Kaufman

  • Mitch Kreindel
    Dennis Watson

  • Oteil Burbridge
    Lolo

  • Richard Venture
    Wilson

  • Sam Weisman
    Colson