Being there [blu-ray] / BSB ; CIP ; Lorimar Film Entertainment ; NatWest Ventures ; Northstar ; produced by Andrew Braunsberg ; screenplay by Jerzy Kosinski ; directed by Hal Ashby.
Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehard, Ruth Attaway, Dave Clennon. Based on the novel by Jerzy Kosinski. Originally released as a motion picture in 1979. Special features: "Memories from Being there" featurette; two recently discovered scenes; alternate ending; theatrical trailer.
Summary:
Chance is a secluded gardener who 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. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, as well as an unlikely political insider.
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