Being There
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
1979-12-19 | 130 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Peter SellersChance
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Shirley MacLaineEve Rand
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Melvyn DouglasBenjamin Rand
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Jack WardenPresident 'Bobby'
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Richard DysartDr. Robert Allenby
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Richard BasehartVladimir Skrapinov
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Ruth AttawayLouise
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David ClennonThomas Franklin
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Fran BrillSally Hayes
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Alice HirsonFirst Lady
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Jerome HellmanGary Burns
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John HarkinsSidney Courtney
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James NobleKaufman
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Mitch KreindelDennis Watson
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Oteil BurbridgeLolo
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Richard VentureWilson
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Sam WeismanColson
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Ilya BaskinKarpatov
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Hal AshbyMan at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
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