Being There

1979·130'

★ 7.6

Letterboxd TMDB #10322

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.

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