Being There (1979)

Released  February 8, 1980, in the US.

Filmed in California, Washington DC, Washington, and Maryland.

The story: Chance is a live-in gardener in an old rich man's home.

He has lived and worked in the same place all of his life, never even leaving the house.

When his employer dies, Chance is out of a job and home, only he doesn't realize that because he isn't much in the brains department.

No one actually knows Chance other than his deceased employer and the housemaid.

He is now free to leave the house he has always known as his home but has no place to go.

While wandering around the city well into the nightime he happens to catch a glimpse of a tv shop.

Other than plants , watching tv is what he most enjoys.

While watching tv and not paying attention to whats going on around him , he finds himself stuck between two cars.

Worried , the owner of the car that came along trying to park insists on taking him to the hospital , which he agrees to. 

But while taking that trip they decide Chance should just go home with her.

There Chance is treated for his injuries by the on call doctor who is caring for the man of the house.

The doctor invites Chance to stay for a few days and while staying he is quickly thrown into a world he could never have imagined.

Stars Peter Sellers , Ruth Attaway , Shirley MacLaine , Melvyn Douglas , Jack Warden , Richard Dysart , Richard Basehart , David Clennon , Fran Brill , Denise DuBarry , Oteil Burbridge , Brian Corrigan

Directed by Hal Ashby

Rated PG
DRAMA/COMEDY