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Being There (Blu-ray Disc, 2009)

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Coming Home & Being There Blu-ray Hal Ashby LOT

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BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's fortuitously struck by a limousine carrying Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine), the wife of a wealthy industrialist. He's mistaken, because of his well-tailored suits, for a man of means and taken to dinner with her husband, Ben Rand (Melvyn Douglas). There, as Chauncy Gardner, his blank affect is taken for seriousness and his literal pronouncements about gardening for metaphoric economic predictions. Soon he's meeting the president (Jack Warden) and becoming a star on TV--where he's a natural.Kosinski was well known to be personally fascinated by the power of television. In BEING THERE, which he adapted for the screen himself, he presents a comic fable about a man whose entire sense of reality came from watching television. Sellers is marvelous as the always-deadpan cipher in whom everyone he meets sees whatever it is they need to see. Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, and Melvyn Douglas give outstanding performances in this biting satire directed by Hal Ashby.

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UPC0883929043521

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Product Key Features

ActorPeter Sellers

RatingG

Movie/TV TitleBeing there

DirectorHal Ashby

FormatBlu-ray Disc

Release Year2009

GenreComedy

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUSA

Signal StandardBlu-ray Disc

Leading RolePeter Sellers

Film CountryUSA

Release Date20090203

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item 2 Being There (BD) [Blu-ray], DVD Widescreen, Subtitled, Original

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item 3 Being There (Blu-ray Disc)

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item 4 Being There [Deluxe Edition] [WS] [Blu-ray] by Hal Ashby: Used

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item 5 Peter Sellers movies on DVD; 3rd one FREE! Comedies; De Sica, Mazursky, Kubrick

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item 7 Being There - 1979 Film Blu-ray Disc Peter Sellers Shirley MacLaine NM Hal Ashby

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item 8 Being There (Blu-ray Disc, 2009)

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item 9 Being There (1979, Blu Ray, WB) Deluxe Edition Peter Sellers EUC

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item 11 Coming Home & Being There Blu-ray Hal Ashby LOT

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item 12 Being There: Deluxe Ed. Blu-ray Peter Sellers Melvyn Douglas Richard Basehart

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by kkarlson-2011
02 Jun, 2016
"In the spring there will be growth"
A deep and wonderful story about the power of simple truth and seeing life at it's most basic reality. Also one of Peter Seller's greatest roles. A beautiful movie...with plenty of laughs and food for thought. An all time favorite.
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by jemo_6243
06 Sep, 2023
Excellent 👍
Glad to have this movie with Peter Sellers
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by gloewil
18 Apr, 2017
Thank you
Thank you great movie
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by mrerickso
05 Jan, 2021
Brilliant acting
Brilliant script and acting.
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by ralphy02
12 Jul, 2019
Being There
One of my all time favorite movies - recommend it highly
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by treasurebox219
02 Jan, 2020
Entertaining
Thought provoking
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by seanmagenta
20 Oct, 2021
Nice
Nice
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by danispop
04 Nov, 2016
One of my all-time favorite films
This movie is sure to make you laugh and it might make you cry, but it will never cease to hold your attention. To me, the final scene wraps the whole story up and ties a bow on it in a way that, in my experience, few movies ever do. In the end, I find myself left with an almost complete sense of satisfaction and admiration for everyone involved in creating this movie, from the cast to the production staff and all the way back to the author of the novel on which it is based. For me, my greatest disappointment in "Being There" comes from knowing that, 23 years after making this little gem of a movie, Peter Sellers died without receiving the recognition he deserved for his flawless creation of its central character, Chance, the Gardener.
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