Being There poster

Being There

19792h 10mComedy · Drama
directed by Hal Ashby

“Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!”

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7.6 / 10
1,136 votes
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7.9 / 10
81,303 votes
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83 / 100
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95%

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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.

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