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Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it! - Being There
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Title: Being There

Release Date: 19 Dec 1979

Runtime: 2h 10m

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: United Artists, Lorimar Film Entertainment, BSB, CIP, NatWest Ventures, New Gold Entertainment, Northstar Media

Production Companies: United Artists, Lorimar Film Entertainment, BSB, CIP, NatWest Ventures, New Gold Entertainment, Northstar Media

Overview: 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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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.621 (992 votes)

Cast

  • Chance: Peter Sellers
  • Eve Rand: Shirley MacLaine
  • Benjamin Rand: Melvyn Douglas
  • President 'Bobby': Jack Warden
  • Dr. Robert Allenby: Richard Dysart
  • Vladimir Skrapinov: Richard Basehart
  • Louise: Ruth Attaway
  • Thomas Franklin: David Clennon
  • Sally Hayes: Fran Brill
  • Johanna Franklin: Denise DuBarry
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