

Being There (1979)
- PG
- 12/19/1979 (US)
- Comedy, Drama
- 2h 10m
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
Overview
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.
Robert C. Jones
ScreenplayJerzy Kosiński
Screenplay, NovelHal Ashby
DirectorCast

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