“Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!”
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.
Hal Ashby
Charles Mulvehill
Andrew Braunsberg
Robert C. Jones
Jerzy Kosiński
Caleb Deschanel
Johnny Mandel
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
... and 10 more
Filipe Manuel Neto
**Peter Sellers' big farewell in a film that highlights his more chivalrous side.** There are films that, even though they're good, cannot be consensual, and this is one of them. It's a film that conquers admirers as easily as it accumulates people who didn't understand it or didn't like it for w...
Hal Ashby on making BEING THERE
Featurette • YouTube
Being There (1979) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
Trailer • YouTube
Anatomy of a Gag: BEING THERE
Featurette • YouTube
Alan Spencer on BEING THERE
Featurette • YouTube
Being There - Original Theatrical Trailer
Trailer • YouTube
Northstar Media
Lorimar Motion Pictures