Being There1979
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
Director
Screenplay
Jerzy Kosiński
Actors
Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart, David Clennon, John Harkins, Sam Weisman, Elya Baskin, Kenneth Patterson
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 130 Minutes
Genres
About the film
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.
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