Being There

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Call Number: Blu-ray Comedy Being
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Comedy Being	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult A/V 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Comedy Being	1-week checkout	Due 05-03-2024

Based on the novel by Jerzy Kosinski.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.
Special features: "Memories from Being there" featurette; two recently discovered scenes; alternate ending; theatrical trailer.
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.
Blu-ray disc, widescreen (1.78:1); Dolby Digital, 1080p High Definition.
This Blu-ray disc and not play in standard DVD players.
Contents: Being there.

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Awesome submitted by mysterio on August 18, 2011, 9:28am Awesome

Being There submitted by jibkidder on July 26, 2022, 10:05am Charming Hal Ashby satire based on the Jerzy Kosinski work that everyone talked about again when Trump became president, even though the film is simply funny and nowhere close to dark enough to have much to do with the Trump nitemare.