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Being There
Hailed is a brilliant person and an aging gardener. Suddenly, he plays a dangerous game of politics and becomes a possible presidential candidate. What challenges he must face to attain new position?
10 May 1943, Waukegan, Illinois, USA
28 April 1937, San Jose, California, USA
10 March 1929, New York City, New York, USA
20 November 1927, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
2 June 1930, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
5 November 1934, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
6 March 1956, Killeen, Texas, USA
29 July 1951, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
3 February 1959, Buffalo, New York, USA
30 March 1929, Brighton, Massachusetts, USA
4 September 1928, New York City, New York, USA
10 October 1963, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
3 August 1911, Bozeman, Montana, USA
20 July 1927, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
7 September 1932, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
5 March 1922, Dallas, Texas, USA
July 08, 2014
Hal Ashby's satirical parable on the way the USA surrenders itself to homespun evangelicalism gives Peter Sellers the role of a lifetime.
July 08, 2014
A Gumpish plot? Perhaps, but Being There is much more subtle and enigmatic than that.
January 26, 2006
What emerges in the end is a strange ambiguity of attitude to the American political system and a hollow humour about cultural values. The cinema of cynicism, really.
January 02, 2011
Amazingly poignant performance by Peter Sellers.
October 20, 2014
Even in a chilly movie like this, deaths have resonance (whether they're on camera, or off).
January 26, 2012
Peter Sellers gives a stellar performance.
July 08, 2014
Here is a comedy that valiantly defies both gravity and the latest Hollywood fashion.
July 08, 2014
The movie's main effect is to confirm how versatile Sellers has always been.
May 20, 2003
Hal Ashby directs Being There at an unruffled, elegant pace, the better to let Mr. Sellers's double-edged mannerisms make their full impression upon the audience.
October 31, 2007
A highly unusual and an unusually fine film.
December 19, 2016
Sellers has never been better and he embellishes the detached, childlike innocence of this character with perfect style and timing. It's a deceptively simple performance, but it is essentially the core and substance of the film.
October 31, 2007
No one seems to know what to do with the allegorical undertone of Jerzy Kosinski's script, but as a whole this 1979 film maintains a fine level of wit, sophistication, and insight.