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Being there [digital videodisc] / Lorimar presents ; a Northstar International picture ; an Andrew Braunsberg production ; screenplay by Jerzy Kosinski ; produced by Andrew Braunsberg ; directed by Hal Ashby.

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[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]

Gardeners -- Drama.

Social isolation -- Drama.

Political consultants -- Drama.

Business and politics -- Drama.

People with mental disabilities -- Drama.

Television viewers -- Drama.

Washington (D.C.) -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 864.

2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded leaflet.

Two-DVD special edition.

"In one of his most finely tuned performances, Peter Sellers plays the pure-hearted, childlike Chance, a gardener who is forced into the wilds of Washington, D.C., when his wealthy guardian dies. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn't respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon (Melvyn Douglas, in an Oscar-winning performance), who mistakes his protégé's horticultural mumblings for sagacious pronouncements on life and politics, and whose wife (Shirley MacLaine) targets Chance as the object of her desire. Adapted from a novel by Jerzy Kosinski, this satire, both deeply melancholy and hilarious, is the culmination of Hal Ashy's remarkable string of films in the 1970s and a carefully modulated examination of the ideals, anxieties and media-fueled delusions that shaped American culture during that decade"--Container.

MPAA rating: PG.

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