Being There

Name: Being There
Released: 1979
Cast: Stanley Grover, Kenneth Patterson, Ilya Baskin, Sam Weisman, Richard Venture

1979Directed by Hal AshbyComedy, Drama

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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Performances

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Alice Hirson

as First Lady

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David Clennon

as Thomas Franklin

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Denise DuBarry

as Johanna Franklin

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Fran Brill

as Sally Hayes

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Ilya Baskin

as Karpatov

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Jack Warden

as President 'Bobby'

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James Noble

as Kaufman

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Jerome Hellman

as Gary Burns

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John Harkins

as Sidney Courtney

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Kenneth Patterson

as Perkins

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Melvyn Douglas

as Benjamin Rand

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Mitch Kreindel

as Dennis Watson

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Oteil Burbridge

as Lolo

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Peter Sellers

as Chance

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Richard Basehart

as Vladimir Skrapinov

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Richard Dysart

as Dr. Robert Allenby

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Richard Venture

as Wilson

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Ruth Attaway

as Louise

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Sam Weisman

as Colson

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Shirley MacLaine

as Eve Rand

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1979

Stanley Grover

as Baldwin