Being There

Updated: 18 Jul 2022

Directors:

Charles Mulvehill Hal Ashby Caleb Deschanel Johnny Mandel Don Zimmerman Robert C. Jones Andrew Braunsberg Jerzy Kosiński Jerzy Kosiński Jack Schwartzman

Actors:

Peter 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 Hal Ashby

Genre:

Western, War, Thriller, TV Movie, Science Fiction, Romance, Mystery, Music, Horror, History, Fantasy, Family, Drama, Documentary, Crime, Comedy, Animation, Adventure, Action

Country: no data

Year: 1979

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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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Jonah Hill

Actor

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over 2 years ago

"One of the greatest films ever made. The poster is based on a Magritte painting. Peter Sellers is the star. It’s hysterical and so beautiful. The best movie there is about a naive."

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Lucy Liu

Actress, Producer

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42 FLIISTs

over 2 years ago

I love Being There, it’s one of my favorite movies — with Peter Sellers, who I thought was brilliant. I love how underplayed but so incredibly funny it was, you know… dry.

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Taika Waititi

Actor, Director

31 followers

101 FLIISTs

almost 4 years ago

Even the films like Being There or Network, or films with the insane characters who become super popular in the American public eye. Or Face in the Crowd, like, that’s happening right now in your politics. Right now. Life goes beyond often in terms of ridiculous situations coming through.

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Ben Affleck

Actor, Director

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over 3 years ago

It’s funny, because the period of time that the film is set in had this weird dichotomy where some of the greatest films ever, like Being There [1979], were being made right in tandem with some of the cheesiest sci-fi B-movie knockoffs. I watched all of those movies.

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