Being There poster
Director Hal Ashby
Screenplay Jerzy Kosiński, Robert C. Jones

Being There

Tagline: Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!

Release Date: 1979-12-19

Duration: 130 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Shirley MacLaine
    Eve Rand
  • Jack Warden
    President 'Bobby'
  • Richard Basehart
    Vladimir Skrapinov
  • Peter Sellers
    Chance
  • Elya Baskin
    Karpatov
  • Melvyn Douglas
    Benjamin Rand
  • David Clennon
    Thomas Franklin
  • Richard Dysart
    Dr. Robert Allenby
  • Alice Hirson
    First Lady
  • Richard Venture
    Wilson