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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Hal Ashby |
| Stars: |
Peter Sellers |
| Actors: |
Shirley MacLaine |
| Genre: |
Comedies |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · Character Study · Politics · Satire · Wise Fools · Classic |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Canadian Deluxe Edition DVD |
| UPC: |
012569093829 |
| Release Date: |
1979 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 9min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Canadian Deluxe Edition DVD, 2hr 9min
Release Company: Warner Home Video (February 03, 2009)
UPC: 883929064601 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 2hr 4min
UPC: 086162702631 |
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Professional Reviews
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(12/20/1979, p.C20, Janet Maslin): "...A stately, beautifully acted satire....Sellers never strikes a false note..." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"I like to watch."--Chauncy Gardner (Peter Sellers) to Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine) |
| More Information |
| Details: |
BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's fortuitously struck by a limousine carrying Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine), the wife of a wealthy industrialist. He's mistaken, because of his well-tailored suits, for a man of means and taken to dinner with her husband, Ben Rand (Melvyn Douglas). There, as Chauncy Gardner, his blank affect is taken for seriousness and his literal pronouncements about gardening for metaphoric economic predictions. Soon he's meeting the president (Jack Warden) and becoming a star on TV--where he's a natural. <br> <br> Kosinski was well known to be personally fascinated by the power of television. In BEING THERE, which he adapted for the screen himself, he presents a comic fable about a man whose entire sense of reality came from ... |
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