Being There
– A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old ..
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.
26 May 1980
English, Russian, Italian
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Hal Ashby
Jerzy Kosinski (novel), Jerzy Kosinski (screenplay)
Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden
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. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.
Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 15 nominations.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment