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Being There

When his employer dies, simple-minded gardener Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

Chance, a simple-minded gardener, has spent all his life in the Washington DC 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. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman and her husband, Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

2 hours, 4 minutes

Last on

Sun 5 Apr 2026 23:50

Credits

Role Contributor
Chance - Chauncey Gardiner Peter Sellers
Eve Rand Shirley MacLaine
President 'Bobby' Jack Warden
Benjamin Turnbull Rand Melvyn Douglas
Dr. Robert Allenby Richard Dysart
Thomas Franklin David Clennon
Sally Hayes Fran Brill
Louise Ruth Attaway
Director Hal Ashby

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