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Being There

Being There

Hal Ashby

1979

  • Comedy
  • Drama
7.6

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 & crew

  • Hal AshbyDirector
  • Peter SellersChance
  • Shirley MacLaineEve Rand
  • Melvyn DouglasBenjamin Rand
  • Jack WardenPresident 'Bobby'
  • Richard DysartDr. Robert Allenby
  • Richard BasehartVladimir Skrapinov
  • Ruth AttawayLouise
  • David ClennonThomas Franklin

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