Monday, February 28, 2011

Being There (1979)

Based on the novella by Jerzy Kosinski, this film adaptation is directed by Hal Ashby and stars Peter Sellers.

Chance the Gardener is a simple-minded servant who has literally lived his whole life in the home of a wealthy man. When the aged man suddenly dies, Chance must leave and enter the foreign outside world. However, by luck he ends up in the home of a rich, dying businessman who (like everyone else around him) does not realize that Chance is not the clever, astute man that they make him out to be. But it does not matter because everyone sees what they want to see and that makes them happy.

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