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Being There

1979 · Hal Ashby · 130 min

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A story of chance.

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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7.6/10Rating on TMDBFrom The Movie Database1,175 votesTMDB
Peter SellersChanceShirley MacLaineEve RandMelvyn DouglasBenjamin RandJack WardenPresident 'Bobby'Richard DysartDr. Robert AllenbyRichard BasehartVladimir SkrapinovRuth AttawayLouiseDavid ClennonThomas FranklinFran BrillSally HayesDDenise DuBarryJohanna FranklinAlice HirsonFirst LadyJerome HellmanGary BurnsJohn HarkinsSidney CourtneyJames NobleKaufmanMitch KreindelDennis Watson

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Peter SellersChanceShirley MacLaineEve RandMelvyn DouglasBenjamin RandJack WardenPresident 'Bobby'Richard DysartDr. Robert AllenbyRichard BasehartVladimir SkrapinovRuth AttawayLouiseDavid ClennonThomas FranklinFran BrillSally HayesDDenise DuBarryJohanna FranklinAlice HirsonFirst LadyJerome HellmanGary BurnsJohn HarkinsSidney CourtneyJames NobleKaufmanMitch KreindelDennis Watson

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