Being There

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Synopsis

What would happen if the American public got the leader it deserved? Peter Sellers plays an innocent and illiterate gardener who ends up the most influential man in Washington, D.C. - simply by Being There.

Gentle and slow-witted Chance tends a garden on a palatial estate and knows nothing of the outside world except what he sees watching television. Then a limousine hits him, and everything changes. Elevated to celebrity status by the limousine's powerful passenger, Eve Rand, Chance charms everyone, including the President of the United States.

Can his simple but wise gardening metaphors solve the country's complex problems? Chance helps peace grow and flourish in this comic, cautionary fable about the power of simplicity.

Movie info:

Release:

1979

Running Time:

130 min

Certificate:

Suitable only for 15 years and over

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Genre:

Comedy

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Director:

Hal Ashby

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Joanne Peacock
unforgettable
06 December 2008
Many fine scenes, some unforgettable lines ("I like to watch.") and an interesting final walk. Unwinding slowly, almost solemnly, from its early scenes, Being There begins as a study in pathos that seems out of step with the film's reputation as containing probably the greatest performance by one of Britain's most famous comic actors: Peter Sellers. Here, Sellers plays the hero, "Chance", as contained and autistic: an apparent simpleton who is evicted from the house in which he has evidently lived his entire life and where he has only been exposed to contemporary culture by channel-surfing television. Hungry, seemingly incapable of looking after himself, Chance comes by accident into the house of a millionaire, where his rambling and literal references to the garden for which he has cared are mistaken for the oblique comments of a political sage.
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