Being There (1979)
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
130 min
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.
- Release date
- December 19, 1979
- Country of origin
- United States
- Box office
- $30,177,511
Trailer
Cast
- Peter Sellers as Chance
- Shirley MacLaine as Eve Rand
- Melvyn Douglas as Benjamin Rand
- Jack Warden as President 'Bobby'
- Richard Dysart as Dr. Robert Allenby
- Richard Basehart as Vladimir Skrapinov
- Ruth Attaway as Louise
- David Clennon as Thomas Franklin
- Fran Brill as Sally Hayes
- Denise DuBarry as Johanna Franklin
Crew
- Hal Ashby · Director
- Jerzy Kosinski · Writer
- Andrew Braunsberg · Producer
- Johnny Mandel · Composer
- Caleb Deschanel · Cinematographer
- Don Zimmerman · Editor
- Lynn Stalmaster · Casting director
- Michael D. Haller · Production designer