Film · Drama, Comedy
Being There (1979)
A story of chance.
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.
- Director
- Hal Ashby
- Writers
- Jerzy Kosiński
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- December 19, 1979
Cast
Peter SellersChance
Shirley MacLaineEve Rand
Melvyn DouglasBenjamin Rand
Jack WardenPresident 'Bobby'
Richard DysartDr. Robert Allenby
Richard BasehartVladimir Skrapinov
Ruth AttawayLouise
David ClennonThomas Franklin
Fran BrillSally Hayes- Denise DuBarryJohanna Franklin
Alice HirsonFirst Lady
Jerome HellmanGary Burns
John HarkinsSidney Courtney
James NobleKaufman
Mitch KreindelDennis Watson
Oteil BurbridgeLolo
Richard VentureWilson
Sam WeismanColson
Elya BaskinKarpatov
Hal AshbyMan at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
