Being There (1979)
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
Starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas
Directed by Hal Ashby
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.
Runtime: 130 min.
Rating: 7.7
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: Germany,United States of America
Genres: Comedy,Drama
Keywords: washington d.c.,u.s. president,identity,policy and organisations,autism,impotence,botanist
Cast
Chance
Eve Rand
Benjamin Rand
President 'Bobby'
Dr. Robert Allenby
Vladimir Skrapinov
Louise
Thomas Franklin
Sally Hayes
Johanna Franklin
First Lady
Gary Burns
Sidney Courtney
Kaufman
Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)