03158cgm a2200685 i 4500 295860696 TxAuBib 20100106120000.0 d 090107s1979||||||||||||||||||||||v|eng|u 883929037094 1000042577 Warner Home Video (OCoLC)297238430 eng rda TxAuBib rda eng eng fre spa eng Being there [DVD] / BSB ; CIP ; Lorimar Film Entertainment ; NatWest Ventures ; Northstar ; produced by Andrew Braunsberg ; screenplay by Jerzy Kosinski ; directed by Hal Ashby. Deluxe edition. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 1979. 1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. tdi rdacontent v rdamedia vd rdacarrier Title from container. Based on the novel by Jerzy Kosinski. Originally released as a motion picture in 1979. Special features: "Memories from Being there" featurette; theatrical trailer. Director of photography, Caleb Deschanel ; editor, Don Zimmerman ; music, Johnny Mandel. Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehard, Ruth Attaway, Dave Clennon. 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 confidante to Ben, as well as an unlikely political insider. MPAA rating: PG. DVD, widescreen (1.78:1); Dolby Digital mono. 20160706. English dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. Male friendship Washington (D.C) Drama. Social isolation Washington (D.C) Drama. Business and politics Washington (D.C) Drama. Gardeners Washington (D.C) Drama. Married people Washington (D.C) Drama. Drama. Comedy films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Video recordings. Warden, Jack. Clennon, David. Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980. Douglas, Melvyn. Dysart, Richard. Basehart, Richard, 1914-1984. Braunsberg, Andrew. Ashby, Hal. Attaway, Ruth. Kosinski, Jerzy, 1933-1991. MacLaine, Shirley, 1934- NorthStar (Firm). BSB (Firm). CIP (Firm). NatWest Ventures (Firm). Warner Home Video (Firm). Lorimar Film Entertainment.