Being There 1979

Synopsis

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 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

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