Peter Sellers
Chance ('Chauncey Gardiner')
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Feb 8, 1980 · With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden. After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.
- (78K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Hal Ashby
- 1980-02-08
Being There is a 1979 American satirical comedy-drama film starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, and Melvyn Douglas. Directed by Hal Ashby, it is based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Jerzy Kosiński, and adapted for the screen by Kosiński and the uncredited Robert C. Jones.
May 25, 1997 · A man who has lived in a garden his whole life becomes a powerful advisor by accident, using simple phrases that are mistaken for wisdom. Peter Sellers stars in this subtle and ingenious comedy that challenges the superficiality of public speech and social status.
Being There is a 1979 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby. Its screenplay was adapted by Jerzy Kosiński and the uncredited Robert C. Jones from the 1970 novel by Kosiński.
- 125 min
- 49.5K
- Mister Microscope
Chance, a simple gardener, has never left the estate until his employer dies. His simple TV-informed utterances are mistaken for profundity. 3,240 IMDb 7.9 2 h 9 min 1980. X-Ray PG. Action · Adventure · Comedy · Understated. Available to rent or buy.
Simple-minded Chance (Peter Sellers), a gardener who has resided in the Washington, D.C., townhouse of his wealthy employer for his entire life and been educated only by television, is forced to ...
- Comedy
The lawyers force him to leave the townhouse and he discovers the outside world for the first time. Chance wanders aimlessly through a wintry and busy Washington dressed in conservative, old-fashioned business attire, a homburg hat, suitcase, umbrella and a television remote from his former home.
