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Title Being there / Warner Bros. Pictures ; Lorimar presents a Northstar International picture ; an Andrew Braunsberg production ; executive producer, Jack Schwartzman ; screenplay by Jerzy Kosinski ; produced by Andrew Braunsberg ; directed by Hal Ashby.

Publication Info. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2009]
©2009

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 Moore Video  PN1997 .B4385 2009 Circulation Desk    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition Deluxe edition.
Widescreen version.
Description 1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical mono Dolby digital
NTSC
video file DVD video region 1
Physical Medium polychrome
System Details DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby Digital mono; dual-layer format.
Note Wide screen.
Cast Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart, Ruth Attaway, Dave Clennon, Fran Brill.
Credits Director of photography, Caleb Deschanel ; editor, Don Zimmerman ; music, Johnny Mandel ; production designer, Michael Haller ; costume designer, May Routh.
Note Based on the novel by Jerzy Kosinski.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979.
Audience MPAA rating: PG.
Summary 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 confidant to Ben, as well as an unlikely political insider.
Note Special features: "Memories from Being there" featurette; theatrical trailer.
Awards 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).
Language In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH), French or Spanish subtitles.
Subject Gardeners -- Washington (D.C.) -- Drama.
Gardeners.
Washington (D.C.)
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Social isolation -- Washington (D.C.) -- Drama.
Social isolation.
Married people -- Washington (D.C.) -- Drama.
Married people.
Male friendship -- Washington (D.C.) -- Drama.
Male friendship.
Business and politics -- Washington (D.C.) -- Drama.
Business and politics.
Washington (D.C.) -- Drama.
Demonstration (Washington, D.C. : 1971)
Genre/Form Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Comedy films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Subject Married people.
Men's friendships.
Genre/Form Drama.
Added Author Ashby, Hal, film director.
Braunsberg, Andrew, film producer.
Schwartzman, Jack, film producer.
Kosinski, Jerzy, 1933-1991, screenwriter.
Deschanel, Caleb, 1944- director of photography.
Zimmerman, Don, 1944- editor of moving image work.
Mandel, Johnny, composer (expression)
Haller, Michael, production designer.
Routh, May, costume designer.
Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980, actor.
MacLaine, Shirley, 1934- actor.
Warden, Jack, actor.
Douglas, Melvyn, actor.
Dysart, Richard, actor.
Basehart, Richard, 1914-1984, actor.
Attaway, Ruth, actor.
Clennon, David, actor.
Brill, Fran, actor.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Kosinski, Jerzy, 1933-1991. Being there.
Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), presenter.
Lorimar Film Entertainment, presenter.
Northstar International (Firm), production company.
Warner Home Video (Firm), publisher.
Added Title Container of (work): Being there (Motion picture : 1979)
Container of (expression): Being there (Motion picture : 1979). French.
Container of (expression): Being there (Motion picture : 1979). Spanish.
ISBN 1419873296
9781419873294
Standard No. 883929037094
Music No. 2000005232 Warner Home Video
3000019008 Warner Home Video