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Find out who starred in the comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby and based on a novel by Jerzy Kosinski. See the full cast and crew list, including Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, and more.
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.
Feb 8, 1980 · A comedy drama starring Peter Sellers as a simpleminded gardener who becomes a political insider in Washington. See the full cast and crew list, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more on IMDb.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Hal Ashby
- 1980-02-08
A film about a man whose mind works like a rudimentary A.I. program, played by Peter Sellers. He is mistaken for a wise man and befriends a dying millionaire, the president, and a TV audience.
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 ...
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- Hal Ashby
- PG
- Peter Sellers
Frank E. Warner. Jerzy Kosiński. Robert C. Jones. 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.
Find out who played Chance, Eve, Benjamin Rand and other characters in the comedy-drama film Being There, based on a novel by Jerzy Kosiński. See the full list of cast and crew members, including director Hal Ashby, composer Johnny Mandel and producer Jack Schwartzman.
