Being There
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
Being There (1979)
Timing:
2:10 (130 min)
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Country
Production
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Budget
$0
Revenue
$30 177 604
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Charles Mulvehill, Andrew Braunsberg, Jack Schwartzman
Operator
Composer
Johnny Mandel
Artist
Audition
Editing
Don Zimmerman
All team (17)
All team (17)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on Jerzy Kosinski's novel "The Gardener" (Being There, 1971).
- At the 76th minute of the film, director Hal Ashby makes a cameo appearance – he is signing papers in the background.
- Preparing for the role, Peter Sellers repeatedly recorded his lines in a variety of styles and tones. In the end, he chose a cold and emotionless style.
- Peter Sellers was nominated for an «Oscar» for his role in this film.
- It took Peter Sellers (1925-1980) almost 9 years to agree to make this film at the urging of the film studios, as his career was already over in the 1970s and no one in Hollywood wanted to associate with him. The only exception was the now-defunct Lorimar Pictures (an American television production company and a subsidiary of Warner Bros.).
- At the 76th minute of the film, director Hal Ashby makes a cameo appearance – he is signing papers in the background.
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