Being there
(DVD) 

Recorded in Dolby digital mono.

Widescreen (1.78:1) presentation.

Dual-layer format.

Based on the novel by Jerzy Kosinski.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979.

Special features: Memories from Being there (featurette); theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Caleb Deschanel ; editor, Don Zimmerman ; music, Johnny Mandel.

Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart, Ruth Attaway, Dave Clennon.

Chance is a secluded gardener who 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 Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, as well as an unlikely political insider.

MPAA rating: PG

DVD format.

English, French or Spanish dialogue with optional French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Academy Awards (1980): winner for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Melvyn Douglas); nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Peter Sellers); Golden Globes (1980): winner for Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy (Sellers); Best Motion Picture Actor in a Supporting Role (Douglas); nominated for Best Director - Motion Picture; Best Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy; Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy (Shirley MacLaine); Best Screenplay - Motion Picture (Kosinski).

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