Movie Details

Title

Being There

Overview

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.

Runtime

2 h 10 min

Release Date

19 December 1979

Actors

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, Hal Ashby

Certification

PG

Genres

Comedy, Drama

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