Being There

(1979)

★ 7.6 IMDb · 1,158 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Year: 1979

Runtime: 130 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Хэл Эшби

Cast: Питер Селлерс, Ширли Маклейн, Мелвин Дуглас, Джек Уорден, Ричард А. Дайсарт, Ричард Бейсхарт, Рут Аттавэй, Дэвид Кленнон, Фрэн Брилл, Дениз ДюБарри

Plot

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.

Simple-minded gardener Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. home 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. After a run-in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardiner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.