Being There

1979 · 2h10 · Film

Directed by Hal Ashby

Starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart, Ruth Attaway, David Clennon, Fran Brill, Denise DuBarry

Ideal when you feel… Happy Romantic Angry

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.

Original language

English

Screenplay

Jerzy Kosiński

Music

Johnny Mandel

Cinematography

Caleb Deschanel

Cast

Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart, Ruth Attaway, David Clennon, Fran Brill, Denise DuBarry, Alice Hirson, Jerome Hellman

Updated July 22, 2026

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