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. Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, and Richard Basehart are ...
- $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.
- (76K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Hal Ashby
- 1980-02-08
May 25, 1997 · A film about a man who is taken for a genius by the rich and powerful, and becomes a political candidate. The reviewer praises the film's satire, humor, and performance of Peter Sellers as Chance, a simple gardener who is taken for a savant. The reviewer also criticizes some aspects of the film, such as the sex-oriented subplots and the final scene.
Being There. 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.
A simpleminded gardener becomes a trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics after the death of his employer. His wisdom is derived from watching TV and his name is misinterpreted as Chauncey Gardiner.
A simple-minded gardener (Sellers) is mistaken for a wealthy and influential man by the elite society he encounters after his employer's death. A satire of media and politics, the film has a 95% Tomatometer and a 92% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes.
- (1.7K)
- Hal Ashby
- PG
- Peter Sellers
Oct 18, 2010 · Aimless gardener Chance (Peter Sellers) fascinated by a Washington, D.C. shop window TV display, meets well-to-do Eve (Shirley MacLaine) who surmises a name for him, in Hal Ashby's Being There, 1979. From the credits, first scene for Chance (Peter Sellers), who scarcely notices Louise (Ruth Attaway), bearing news of their employer's sudden ...
