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Being There

Name: Being There
Director: Hal Ashby
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1979-12-19
Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart

ComedyDrama

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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Cast

Peter SellersShirley MacLaineMelvyn DouglasJack WardenRichard DysartRichard BasehartRuth AttawayDavid ClennonFran BrillDenise DuBarryAlice HirsonJerome Hellman

Director

Hal Ashby

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