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Being There (1979)
Directed by Hal Ashby
“A story of chance.”
Comedy, Drama · 2h 10m
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.
Cast
Peter Sellers
Chance
Shirley MacLaine
Eve Rand
Melvyn Douglas
Benjamin Rand
Jack Warden
President 'Bobby'
Richard Dysart
Dr. Robert Allenby
Richard Basehart
Vladimir Skrapinov
Ruth Attaway
Louise
David Clennon
Thomas Franklin
Fran Brill
Sally Hayes
D
Denise DuBarry
Johanna Franklin
Alice Hirson
First Lady
Jerome Hellman
Gary Burns
Crew
- Director
- Hal Ashby
- Screenplay
- Jerzy Kosiński
- Novel
- Jerzy Kosiński
- Director of Photography
- Caleb Deschanel
- Original Music Composer
- Johnny Mandel
- Editor
- Don Zimmerman
- Producer
- Charles Mulvehill, Andrew Braunsberg
Details
- Release date
- 1979-12-19
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Northstar Media, Lorimar Motion Pictures, BSB, CIP, NatWest Ventures
- Box office
- $30,177,511