TY - ADVS AU - Ashby,Hal AU - Braunsberg,Andrew AU - Kosinski,Jerzy AU - Sellers,Peter AU - MacLaine,Shirley AU - Warden,Jack AU - Douglas,Melvyn AU - Dysart,Richard AU - Basehart,Richard AU - Kosinski,Jerzy ED - Warner Bros. ED - Lorimar Film Entertainment. ED - Northstar Entertainment, Inc. ED - Warner Home Video (Firm) TI - Being there PY - 2009///] ©2009 CY - Burbank, CA PB - Warner Home Video KW - Kosinski, Jerzy, KW - Savants (Savant syndrome) KW - Washington (D.C.) KW - Drama KW - Gardeners KW - Television viewers KW - Comedy films KW - Feature films KW - Films for the hearing impaired KW - local N1 - Widescreen format (aspect ratio 1.85); Originally released as a motion picture in 1979; BSB ; CIP ; Lorimar Film Entertainment ; NatWest Ventures ; Northstar ; produced by Andrew Braunsberg ; screenplay by Jerzy Kosinski ; directed by Hal Ashby; Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehard, Ruth Attaway, Dave Clennon; Rating: PG N2 - 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 ER -