Being There

Name: Being There
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1979-12-19
Duration: 130 min
Rating: 7.9

1979 · 2h 10m · Comedy, Drama

IMDb 7.9 Metacritic 83 RT 95%

Watch it tonight. This is a genuinely brilliant satire that somehow gets smarter with each viewing, and those critic scores aren't lying—it's a rare film that works as both comedy and social commentary without breaking a sweat. Peter Sellers is mesmerizing as a man who accidentally becomes a political sage, and the whole thing feels oddly relevant no matter what decade you're living in.

Plot

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.

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