Being There
DEC 19, 1979 · 130 MIN · DIR. 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.
Cast
Peter Sellers
Chance
Shirley MacLaine
Eve Rand
Melvyn Douglas
Benjamin Rand
Jack Warden
President 'Bobby'
Richard Dysart
Dr. Robert Allenby
Richard Basehart
Vladimir Skrapinov
Ruth Attaway
Louise
David Clennon
Thomas Franklin
Fran Brill
Sally Hayes
Denise DuBarry
Johanna Franklin
Alice Hirson
First Lady
Jerome Hellman
Gary Burns
Crew
Screenplay
Jerzy Kosiński
Director of Photography
Caleb Deschanel
Editor
Don Zimmerman
Original Music Composer
Johnny Mandel
Producer
Andrew Braunsberg
Producer
Charles Mulvehill
