Being There (1979)

ALL 12/19/1979 (en) Comedy, Drama 130 Min
  • Release
    12/19/1979
  • Production
    United Artists, Lorimar Film Entertainment, BSB, CIP, NatWest Ventures, New Gold Entertainment, Northstar Media
  • Rotten tomato
    76.15%
  • Original title
    Being There
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 30,177,511.00
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Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!

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.

  1. Hal Ashby

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Don Zimmerman

    Editor



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  1. Peter Sellers

    Chance

  2. Shirley MacLaine

    Eve Rand

  3. Melvyn Douglas

    Benjamin Rand

  4. Jack Warden

    President 'Bobby'

  5. Richard Dysart

    Dr. Robert Allenby

  6. Richard Basehart

    Vladimir Skrapinov

  7. Ruth Attaway

    Louise

  8. David Clennon

    Thomas Franklin

  9. Fran Brill

    Sally Hayes

  10. Denise DuBarry

    Johanna Franklin

  11. Alice Hirson

    First Lady

  12. Jerome Hellman

    Gary Burns

  13. John Harkins

    Sidney Courtney

  14. James Noble

    Kaufman

  15. Mitch Kreindel

    Dennis Watson

  16. Oteil Burbridge

    Lolo

  17. Richard Venture

    Wilson

  18. Sam Weisman

    Colson

  19. Elya Baskin

    Karpatov

  20. Hal Ashby

    Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)

  21. Kenneth Patterson

    Perkins

  22. Stanley Grover

    Baldwin

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 22 , Crews : 19

Keyword

Being There (1979) 130 Min

ALL 12/19/1979 (en)
Comedy, Drama
  • Release 12/19/1979
  • Production
    United Artists, Lorimar Film Entertainment, BSB, CIP, NatWest Ventures, New Gold Entertainment, Northstar Media
  • Original title Being There
  • en
  • Revenue30,177,511.00

Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!

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.

  1. Hal Ashby

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Don Zimmerman

    Editor

  4. Charles Mulvehill, Andrew Braunsberg

    Producer