Chance ('Chauncey Gardiner')
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Being There is a 1979 comedy-drama film starring Peter Sellers as a simple-minded gardener who is mistaken for a wise political advisor. The film satirizes the American society and culture, and features Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, and Richard Basehart.
May 25, 1997 · “Being There,” directed by Hal Ashby, is a rare and subtle bird that finds its tone and stays with it. It has the appeal of an ingenious intellectual game, in which the hero survives a series of challenges he doesn’t understand, using words that are both universal and meaningless.
Being There: Directed by Hal Ashby. With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden. After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Hal Ashby
- 1980-02-08
Mar 10, 2023 · A classic comedy film starring Peter Sellers, Being There satirized modern life and politics in the 1970s. The ending featured a surprise twist that left Chance, a simple gardener, as the potential President of the United States.
- Dalton Norman
- Senior Staff Writer
Being There is a 1979 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby. Its screenplay was adapted by Jerzy Kosiński and the uncredited Robert C. Jones from the 1970 novel by Kosiński. The film stars Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Richard A. Dysart, Jack Warden, and Richard Basehart.
Simple-minded Chance (Peter Sellers), a gardener who has resided in the Washington, D.C., townhouse of his wealthy employer for his entire life and been educated only by television, is forced...
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- Comedy
- PG
Simple-minded gardener Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. home 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 Eve and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman.
