Being There

Film details

Film TitleBeing There
Suitability
Genre
Length130mins
Year1979
CountryUnited States of America
DirectorHal Ashby
ActorsPeter 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, Mitch Kreindel
LanguageEnglish
Showings

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.

Gently directed by Hal Ashby, this satire of a ruling class in which nobody knows anything is almost plausible, and certainly topical.

A highly unusual and an unusually fine film.

A placid, poignant, well-kept secret of a movie.