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Release Date: 2/3/2009
Original Release: 1979
Format: Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray
Rating: PG (MPAA)
Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable)
UPC: 883929043521
Studio: Warner Home Video

Other Formats:  Being There DVD
Being There DVD


Directed by: Hal Ashby
Featuring: Richard Basehart, Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Melvyn Douglas

Categories: Comedies, Classic, Politics, Recommended, Character Study, Satire, Wise Fools, Theatrical Release

Description
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.

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 watching television. Sellers is marvelous as the always-deadpan cipher in whom everyone he meets sees whatever it is they need to see. Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, and Melvyn Douglas give outstanding performances in this biting satire directed by Hal Ashby.

DVD Features
Blu-ray Disc Features:

Anamorphic Widescreen
Additional Release Material:
Outtakes
Alternate Ending
Featurette: Memories from Being There wit Illeana Douglas (Granddaughter of Melvyn Douglas)
Additional Scenes: Two Recently Discovered Scenes

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Technical Specifications
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Average Rating: 3.5 / 5
Number of Reviews: 3 (view all)
4.5 / 5  Posted on March 5, 2007
Reviewed by: Jessica Film Junkie

I had no idea what this film was about when I rented it. All I knew was, I loves me some Peter Sellers (for god's sake, I sat through 'What's New, pu**ycat?' for the man). Tom Hanks owes his 'Forrest...
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3 / 5  Posted on February 20, 2007
Reviewed by: Lone Wolf

Chance (Peter Sellers) is an innocent feeble-minded simpleton who grows up in the home of a wealthy recluse in Washington, D.C. He tends the garden and watches TV. Except for his limited relationship...
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3 / 5  Posted on April 14, 2006
Reviewed by: AJ

Peter Sellers stars as Chance the gardener (or, as is later misconstrued in the film, "Chauncey Gardener"), a very simple man...and trust me, "simple" is the name of the game here. Being There is at...
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