Being There

7.6

Genre:Comedy, Drama
Production:Northstar Media
Released:1979-12-19
IMDB:tt0078841

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.

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Cast

Peter Sellers

Shirley MacLaine

Melvyn Douglas

Jack Warden

Richard Dysart

Richard Basehart

Ruth Attaway

David Clennon

Fran Brill

Denise DuBarry

Alice Hirson

Jerome Hellman

John Harkins

James Noble

Mitch Kreindel

Oteil Burbridge

Richard Venture

Sam Weisman

Elya Baskin

Hal Ashby

Kenneth Patterson

Stanley Grover

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