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Being There

A story of chance.

7.6(1,175)19792h 10m7

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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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$30.2M
Language
English
  • usa president
  • washington dc, usa
  • based on novel or book
  • identity
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  • botanist
  • philosophical
  • ambivalent
  • baffled
  • dignified

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Behind the camera

Director

Hal Ashby

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG19 Dec 1979
    • PhysicalPGCriterion21 Mar 2017
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1220 Dec 1979
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical8 Jul 1980
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatricale 1210 Aug 1981
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-1212 Sept 1980
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalU9 May 1980
  • HungaryHU

    • Theatrical1219 Feb 1981
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical1515 Aug 1980
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical15 Oct 1980
  • JapanJP

    • TheatricalG31 Jan 1981
  • MexicoMX

    • Theatrical30 Jul 1980
  • NetherlandsNL

    • TheatricalAL2 Oct 1980
    • PhysicalALDVD15 Jan 2003

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Being There was released on 19 December 1979.

Audience reviews

2
  • F

    Filipe Manuel Neto

    11/22/2023

    9/10

    **Peter Sellers' big farewell in a film that highlights his more chivalrous side.** There are films that, even though they're good, cannot be consensual, and this is one of them. It's a film that conquers admirers as easily as it accumulates people who didn't understand it or didn't like it for whatever reason. I confess that I liked it, but I can understand both sides. The film has qualities, but it also presents…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    4/30/2026

    7/10

    When the "Old Man" who has provided "Chauncey" (Peter Sellers) with an home for most of his life dies, this erstwhile gardener finds himself homeless. Dressed in his finest handed-down suit and carrying his home in his suitcase, he emerges into the outside world without a clue. He has no money; he has nowhere to say, nothing to eat - he has no friends. He's like a full-sized infant whose only exposure to reality has …

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