Peter Sellers
Chance ('Chauncey Gardiner')
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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.
- $7 million
- Johnny Mandel
- Andrew Braunsberg
Feb 8, 1980 · 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.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Hal Ashby
- 1980-02-08
May 25, 1997 · The classic test of Artificial Intelligence has been: Can a computer be programmed to conduct a conversation that seems human to another human? "Being There'' is a film about a man whose mind works like a rudimentary A.I. program.
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. The film stars Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Richard A. Dysart, Jack Warden, and Richard Basehart. Wiki. Addeddate.
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- Mister Microscope
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
Summaries. 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. Simple-minded gardener Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. home of an old man.
Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine), upset by her zillionaire husband's illness, consoled by idiot Chance (Peter Sellers), now called "Chauncey" and newly famous as a counselor to the president, and taking a call from a financial editor (John Harkins) in Hal Ashby's Being There, 1979.
