Being There
“A story of chance.”
19792h 10mComedy · Drama
Released
December 19, 1979
TMDB Score
76% match · 1,175 votes
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About the Movie
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.
DirectorHal Ashby
- Released
- December 19, 1979
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Box office
- $30.2M
- Studios
- Northstar Media, Lorimar Motion Pictures, BSB
Top Billed 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
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