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Being There

Movie
1979
2h 10m
PG
English
Comedy, Drama
User Score: 
8
Critic Score: 
89
Being There' Poster
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.
Being There Poster

Being There

PG
Movie
1979
2h 10m
English
Comedy, Drama
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.
Rating
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8
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Being There (1979) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
89

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Melvyn Douglas
Benjamin Rand
Jack Warden
President 'Bobby'
Richard Dysart
Dr. Robert Allenby
Richard Basehart
Vladimir Skrapinov
David Clennon
Thomas Franklin
Fran Brill
Sally Hayes
Denise DuBarry
Johanna Franklin
Alice Hirson
First Lady
Jerome Hellman
Gary Burns
John Harkins
Sidney Courtney
Mitch Kreindel
Dennis Watson
Elya Baskin
Karpatov
Hal Ashby
Man at File Cabinet at the Washingt...
Directed By: Hal Ashby
Written By: Robert C. Jones (Screenplay), Jerzy Kosiński (Screenplay), + 1 more

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CatyAlexandre says...
11 years ago
Chance is a simple gardener working on the house of an old man. When the old man dies Chance has to go to the street. He has no place to go, he has no family and he doesn't know anything about the world. He never left the house, he has a soft mental disability, he loves watching tv and everthing he knows about the world he learned through television. Meanwhile he got involved into the middle of the political circle of the United States. Peter Sellers plays Chance in such a brilliant way! Perfect body language and perfect facial expressions, he did just a perfect wonderful work in every way possible. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor with his great performance and actually won a Golden Globe Award for it. The scenes with Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine together are beautiful to see. Melvyn Douglas did a great job too. Overall, Being There is a touching film with a strong hidden message within. It will touch your heart and provide you good laughs sometimes. This is the kind of film that you'll keep thinking after watching it because you might have some different possibilities of interpretation for it.
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AdamMorgan says...
6 years ago
A fantastic and very unique film. Peters Sellers really is amazing and I plan on seeing more of his films.  Much better than his more celebrated The Party.
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Alessandro says...
13 years ago
Really a great movie, I watched it several times, I recommend watching it.
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Spiritualized Kaos says...
2 years ago
A gardener becomes president of the United States
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Filipe Manuel Neto
2 months ago
**Peter Sellers' big farewell in a film that highlights his more chivalrous side.**

There are films that, even though they're good, cannot be consensual, and this is one of them. It's a film that conquers admirers as easily as it accumulates people who didn't understand it or didn't like it for w More
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