Being There

Being There (1979)

Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!

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.

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  • Release Date: 1979-12-19
  • Runtime: 2h 10min
  • Director: Hal Ashby

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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

  • Denise DuBarry

    Johanna Franklin

  • Alice Hirson

    First Lady

  • Jerome Hellman

    Gary Burns

  • John Harkins

    Sidney Courtney

  • James Noble

    Kaufman

  • Mitch Kreindel

    Dennis Watson

  • Oteil Burbridge

    Lolo

  • Richard Venture

    Wilson

  • Sam Weisman

    Colson

  • Elya Baskin

    Karpatov

  • Hal Ashby

    Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)

  • Kenneth Patterson

    Perkins

  • Stanley Grover

    Baldwin

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