Being There
1979/12/19 (US) | Comedy, Drama
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.
Robert C. Jones
Screenplay
Jerzy Kosiński
Screenplay
Hal Ashby
Director
Lead 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
Budget
$ 0
Revenue
$ 30,177,511
Status
Released
Production Company
- United Artists
- Lorimar Film Entertainment
- BSB
- CIP
Crews
Charles Mulvehill
Producer
Johnny Mandel
Original Music Composer
Jack Schwartzman
Executive Producer
Jerzy Kosiński
Novel
Don Zimmerman
Editor