Being There

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Peter Sellers Chance

Shirley MacLaine Eve Rand

Melvyn Douglas Benjamin Rand

Jack Warden President 'Bobby'

Richard Dysart Dr. Robert Allenby