Movie

Being There (1979)

• PG
• December 19, 1979
• 2h 10m

• Comedy
• Drama

“A story of chance.”

Overview

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.

Director

Hal Ashby

Writers

Jerzy Kosiński

Starring

Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas