
Watch trailer for Being There
Watch trailer
Being There
Opens on September 5
Director: Hal Ashby Run Time: 130 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1979
Starring: Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Peter Sellers, Richard Dysart, Shirley MacLaine
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.
*screening as a celebration of “centennial icon” Peter Sellers, born September 8th, 1925.
**Oscar Nominee (Best Actor) at the 1980 Academy Awards
***partially shot in, and around, Asheville, NC