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Being There is 8204 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 3544 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Alberto and the Concrete Jungle but less popular than The Man on the Other Side.
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Dec 19, 2016 · December 19, 2016 10:07am. Photofest. In late December 1979, United Artists premiered Being There, starring Peter Sellers, in New York. The 130-minute comedy was nominated for two honors at the ...
May 30, 2022 · Purchase Being There on digital and stream instantly or download offline. What would happen if the American public got the leader it deserved? Peter Sellers plays an innocent and illiterate gardener who ends up the most influential man in Washington, D.C.--simply by Being There. Gentle and slow-witted Chance (Sellers) tends a garden on a palatial estate and knows nothing of the outside world ...
The movie consists of one joke, of which there are countless variations. A man who is mentally retarded is mistaken by everyone he meets as being important, wise, clever, funny, romantic, etc., depending on the circumstances. But this one joke is not funny, not even in the first instance. In fact, it is irritating.
Being There: Directed by Hal Ashby. 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.
Being There (1979) Being There (1979), subtitled "a story of chance," is a provocative and elegiac black comedy -- a wonderful dramatic yet placid tale or fable that satirized politics, celebrity, media-obsession and television. The subtle film's slogan proclaimed: "Getting there is half the fun. Being there is all of it."
Being There should have been Peter Sellers last movie, instead, his final credit was the cringe worthy The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu. In retrospect, the same could be said of Director Hal Ashby. This was his last, and possibly, best out of a string of critical and commercial successes through the 70’s.
