Being There
“A story of chance.”
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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Cast
22 people
Peter Sellers
Chance
Known for
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The Party
Shirley MacLaine
Eve Rand
Known for
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Apartment
Melvyn Douglas
Benjamin Rand
Known for
The Tenant
The Changeling
Jack Warden
President 'Bobby'
Known for
12 Angry Men
All the President's Men
Richard Dysart
Dr. Robert Allenby
Known for
The Thing
Back to the Future Part III
Richard Basehart
Vladimir Skrapinov
Known for
La Strada
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Ruth Attaway
Louise
Also in
Conrack
The Bermuda Depths
David Clennon
Thomas Franklin
Known for
The Thing
Gone Girl
Fran Brill
Sally Hayes
Known for
Sesame Street
Doug
Denise DuBarry
Johanna Franklin
Known for
Monster in the Closet
Alice Hirson
First Lady
Known for
Starstruck
Blind Date
Jerome Hellman
Gary Burns
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Hal Ashby Director · Jerzy Kosiński Screenplay Johnny Mandel Composer
Worldwide gross $30M · Budget $7M · United States release December 19, 1979
Box office
Budget
$7,000,000
Worldwide gross
$30,177,511
Gross vs. budget
4.3×
Production
Northstar Media
Production
Lorimar Motion Pictures
Production
BSB
Production
CIP
Production
NatWest Ventures
Production
Lorimar Film Entertainment
Production
United Artists Pictures
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Sweden · December 19, 1979
Theatrical
United States · December 19, 1979
Theatrical
United States · March 21, 2017
Physical · Criterion
Argentina
July 8, 1980 · Theatrical
Brazil
August 10, 1981 · Theatrical
Finland
September 12, 1980 · Theatrical
France
May 9, 1980 · Theatrical
Hungary
February 19, 1981 · Theatrical
Ireland
August 15, 1980 · Theatrical
Italy
October 15, 1980 · Theatrical
Japan
January 31, 1981 · Theatrical
Mexico
July 30, 1980 · Theatrical
Netherlands
October 2, 1980 · Theatrical
January 15, 2003 · Physical · DVD
Portugal
October 24, 1980 · Theatrical
Russia
February 10, 2009 · Physical · DVD
United Kingdom
December 20, 1979 · Theatrical
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