Being There - (1979) - Netflix

2h9m - Classic Movies

The life of simple-minded Chance is changed after a run-in with wealthy Eve, and soon his 'wisdom' has political figures hailing him as brilliant.

Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: Richard Dysart, Peter Sellers, Jack Warden, Richard Basehart, Melvyn Douglas, David Clennon, Shirley MacLaine
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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 0/100
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Synopsis 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. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

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