Being There
April 10, 2012Being There
Call Number: VHS01717
by: Peter Sellers; Shirley MacLaine; Andrew Braunsberg; Hal Ashby; Jerzy Kosinski;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©1990,1979.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1979 motion picture. Based on the novel by Jerzy Kosinski.Nominated for two Oscars and six Golden Globes in 1980. Running time approx. 130 min.
Summary: A simple-minded gardener named Chance 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 a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.
OCLC #: 21213206
Added: April 10, 2012
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
