Puzzle taking longer than usual?

Your iPhone or iPad is running older software. Updating may help: FilmLink supports iOS/iPadOS 16.4 and later. How to update your device.

Your Safari version is older than FilmLink supports (16.4 and later). Updating may help. How to update Safari.

You appear to be offline. Reconnect to the internet, then reload this page.

Loading has not finished. Check your connection, then try reloading this page.

Multiplayer Leagues Leaderboard Updates

Loading movie…

Turn movie knowledge into a game

Explore Being There's cast and crew, then connect two films in FilmLink's free daily movie game.

Play today's movie game Learn to play

Backdrop

Being There

Being There1979

★7.6130 minComedyDrama

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.

Director

Writer

Jerzy Kosiński

Score

Stars

Peter Sellers Shirley MacLaine Melvyn Douglas

Cast22

Peter Sellers
as Chance
Shirley MacLaine
as Eve Rand
Melvyn Douglas
as Benjamin Rand
Jack Warden
as President 'Bobby'
Richard Dysart
as Dr. Robert Allenby
Richard Basehart
as Vladimir Skrapinov
Ruth Attaway
as Louise
David Clennon
as Thomas Franklin
Fran Brill
as Sally Hayes
D
Denise DuBarry
as Johanna Franklin
Alice Hirson
as First Lady
Jerome Hellman
as Gary Burns
John Harkins
as Sidney Courtney
James Noble
as Kaufman
Mitch Kreindel
as Dennis Watson
Oteil Burbridge
as Lolo
Richard Venture
as Wilson
Sam Weisman
as Colson
Elya Baskin
as Karpatov
Hal Ashby
as Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
Kenneth Patterson
as Perkins
Stanley Grover
as Baldwin

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

More like this

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

All the President's Men

All the President's Men

Benny & Joon

The Sound of Silence

The Sound of Silence

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

Official Secrets

Official Secrets

The Giver

The Unbreakable Boy

The Unbreakable Boy

Snowden

All the Way

Worth

The Upside

Glass

The Lady in the Van

The Lady in the Van

Richard Jewell

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

The Parts You Lose

The Parts You Lose

A Thousand Words

A Thousand Words

The Distinguished Gentleman

The Distinguished Gentleman

Thunderstruck