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?
28 April 1937, San Jose, California, USA
6 March 1956, Killeen, Texas, USA
12 December 1921, USA
24 August 1964, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
1933
3 August 1911, Bozeman, Montana, USA
4 December 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 November 1934, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
10 October 1963, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
10 May 1943, Waukegan, Illinois, USA
23 September 1927, New York City, New York, USA
10 March 1929, New York City, New York, USA
28 March 1926, Woodstock, Illinois, USA
27 February 1915, Rockford, Illinois, USA
5 October 1919, Budapest, Hungary
20 November 1927, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
25 April 1944, USA
2 September 1929, Ogden, Utah, USA
12 July 1926, Alamosa, Colorado, USA
July 08, 2014
A Gumpish plot? Perhaps, but Being There is much more subtle and enigmatic than that.
January 26, 2012
Peter Sellers gives a stellar performance.
January 02, 2011
Amazingly poignant performance by Peter Sellers.
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.
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.
October 20, 2014
Even in a chilly movie like this, deaths have resonance (whether they're on camera, or off).
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.
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.
October 31, 2007
A highly unusual and an unusually fine film.
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.
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.
