Being There
- Director: Hal Ashby
- Writer: Jerzy Kosinski
- Producer: Andrew Braunsberg; Charles Mulvehill
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Incomparable.
A masterpiece.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Peter Sellers as Chance;
Shirley MacLaine as Eve Rand;
Melvyn Douglas as Benjamin Turnbull 'Ben' 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;
Oteil Burbridge as Lolo;
Ravenell Keller III as Abbaz;
Brian Corrigan as Policeman by White House;
Alfredine P. Brown as Old Woman asked for lunch;
Don Jacob as David