The read
Scores higher than 97% of the 605 1970s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Metacritic83/100
1,158 audience votes
Key crew
- Hal AshbyDirector
- Johnny MandelOriginal Music Composer
- Jerzy KosińskiScreenplay
Cast
- Peter SellersChance
- Shirley MacLaineEve Rand
- Melvyn DouglasBenjamin Rand
- Jack WardenPresident 'Bobby'
- Richard DysartDr. Robert Allenby
- Richard BasehartVladimir Skrapinov
- Ruth AttawayLouise
- David ClennonThomas Franklin
- Fran BrillSally Hayes
- Denise DuBarryJohanna Franklin
- Alice HirsonFirst Lady
- Jerome HellmanGary Burns
Stills
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Themes
usa presidentwashington dc, usabased on novel or bookidentityautismimpotencebotanistphilosophicalambivalentbaffleddignified
The Best Movies of 1979
Being There is #4 of 60
