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Being There (1979) Chance, a simple gardener, has never left the estate until his employer dies. His simple TV-informed utterances are mistaken for profundity. 3,254 IMDb 7.9 2 h 9 min 1980. X-Ray PG. Action · Adventure · Comedy · Understated. Available to rent or buy.
Being There, Hal Ashby’s 1979 adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s novel, is a delightfully dark comedy that, despite a cynical bent, offers viewers a good time.At the heart of Being There’s popularity is a recognition that even the most simple-minded person can put one over on the members of the so-called elite.In this story (as perhaps in life), the latter can be so self-absorbed and certain ...
Being There Comedy 1979 2 hr 10 min In his last great performance, Academy Award and Emmy-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Peter Sellers ("Dr. Strangelove," "The Pink Panther" features) stars as Chauncey Gardner, a child-like manservant (and progenitor to "Forrest Gump") whose hermetic existence is shaken when he is cast out upon his employer's ...
Being There is 1509 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 517 places since yesterday. In Canada, it is currently more popular than Leaving Las Vegas but less popular than Dog.
Being There is a satirical novel by the Polish-born writer Jerzy Kosinski, published April 21, 1971. [1] Set in America, the story concerns Chance, a simple gardener who unwittingly becomes a much sought-after political pundit and commentator on the vagaries of the modern world. It has been suggested that Kosinski modeled the character of ...
BEING THERE. Directed by. Hal Ashby. United States, 1979. Comedy. 130. Synopsis. An aging gardener, filled only with knowledge of the world he has learned from television, rises by accident into the game of politics. The man is soon presented as a possible Presidential candidate although no one knows his true background.
A Criterion Collection release. Jerzy Kosinski’s short novel, Being There, originally published in 1970, is one of the truly essential fables about the far-reaching dangers of electronic media to classical notions of what defines us as humans and to the prospects of shaping and maintaining a culture and society that help make us more fully human.
