Being There
Comedy
Drama
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
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.
1979-12-19
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Cast
Director
Hal Ashby
Peter Sellers as Chance
Shirley MacLaine as Eve Rand
Melvyn Douglas as Benjamin Rand
Jack Warden as President 'Bobby'
Richard Dysart as Dr. Robert Allenby
Richard Basehart as Vladimir Skrapinov
Ruth Attaway as Louise
David Clennon as Thomas Franklin
Fran Brill as Sally Hayes
Alice Hirson as First Lady
Jerome Hellman as Gary Burns
John Harkins as Sidney Courtney
James Noble as Kaufman
Mitch Kreindel as Dennis Watson
Oteil Burbridge as Lolo
Richard Venture as Wilson
Sam Weisman as Colson
Elya Baskin as Karpatov
Hal Ashby as Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
Stanley Grover as Baldwin