Peter Sellers plays Chance, a simple-minded gardener who has to cope with the outside world once his employer passes on in Hal Ashby’s bittersweet film. Melvyn Douglas won an oscar for best supporting actor for his role as Benjamin Turnbull Rand., Chance, a simple-minded gardener, is mistaken for Chauncey Gardner, a laconic but wisely insightful advisor to men of wealth and power., Hailed as a genius for his simplistic approach to life, an aging gardener with a childlike naïveté rises, by accident, into the game of politics. The man is soon presented as a possible Presidential candidate although no one knows his true background., Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning Peter Sellers plays Chauncey Gardener, an idiot savant gardener whose rich employer dies, casting him into a world he’s totally unprepared for. Falling in by chance with Shirley MacLaine and her rich, dying husband Melvyn Douglas (who won the Oscar for his performance), his simple homilies on gardening are seized on by Washington’s great and good, right up to President, as pearls of wisdom and soon, it is his thoughts that are dictating the country’s policies in Hal Ashby’s gentle but barbed political satire., 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., Chance, a simple gardener, has never left the estate until his employer dies. His simple TV-informed utterances are mistaken for profundity., Black comedy about American gullibility in which a withdrawn old man, appropriately called Chance, is seized upon as some kind of oracle. His elevation to the status of a national celebrity is triggered by a road accident, in which Chance finds himself under a car driven by the wife of a political kingmaker. Soon his charm and honesty have won him the ears of people in the highest public offices., Satire of television and politics in which a simple-minded and sheltered gardener unwittingly becomes a political advisor in Washington., Peter Sellers’ portrait of a naive gardener dominates Jerzy Kosinski’s satire of television and politics.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “Being There ” ?
A: The main cast includes Peter Sellers,Shirley MacLaine,Melvyn Douglas,Jack Warden,Richard Dysart,Richard Basehart,Ruth Attaway,David Clennon,Fran Brill,Denise DuBarry,Wendell Burton,Oteil Burbridge,Ravenell Keller III,Brian Corrigan,Alfredine Brown,Donald Jacob,Ernest McClure,Kenneth Patterson,Richard Venture,Arthur Grundy,W.C. ‘Mutt’ Burton,Henry B. Dawkins,Georgine Hall,Ned Wilson,Stanley Grover,Nell Leaman,Villa Mae Barkley,Paul Marin,John Harkins,Alice Hirson,James Noble,William Larsen,Sandy Ward,Danna Hansen,Jerome Hellman,Mitch Kreindel,Arthur Rosenberg,Katherine De Hetre,Sam Weisman,Gwen Humble,Elya Baskin,Melendy Britt,Than Wyenn,Allen Williams,Hanna Hertelendy,Terrence Currier,Austin Hay,Mark Hammer,Maurice Copeland,Caleb Deschanel,Frank Westmore,James Schoppe,Robert C. Jones,May Routh,Charles Mulvehill,Robert R. Benton,Jeff Wexler,Charles Schram,Jerzy Kosinski,Don Zimmerman,Jack Schwartzman.
Q: When Did the “Being There” Released?
A: The Movie “Being There” originally aired on 1979-12-19 and released in the year of 1979.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “Being There” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “Being There” ?
A: “Being There” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
