Being There
Hailed is a brilliant person and an aging gardener. Suddenly, he plays a dangerous game of politics and becomes a possible presidential candidate. What challenges he must face to attain new position?
28 June 1910, Greenville, Mississippi, USA
2 June 1930, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
30 September 1946, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
11 August 1950, Riga, USSR [now Latvia]
20 November 1927, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
13 June 1911, Rector, Arkansas, USA
5 April 1901, Macon, Georgia, USA
4 September 1928, New York City, New York, USA
October 20, 2014
Even in a chilly movie like this, deaths have resonance (whether they're on camera, or off).
July 08, 2014
The movie's main effect is to confirm how versatile Sellers has always been.
October 31, 2007
A highly unusual and an unusually fine film.
January 26, 2012
Peter Sellers gives a stellar performance.
January 26, 2006
What emerges in the end is a strange ambiguity of attitude to the American political system and a hollow humour about cultural values. The cinema of cynicism, really.
July 08, 2014
Here is a comedy that valiantly defies both gravity and the latest Hollywood fashion.
May 20, 2003
Hal Ashby directs Being There at an unruffled, elegant pace, the better to let Mr. Sellers's double-edged mannerisms make their full impression upon the audience.
October 31, 2007
No one seems to know what to do with the allegorical undertone of Jerzy Kosinski's script, but as a whole this 1979 film maintains a fine level of wit, sophistication, and insight.
July 08, 2014
Hal Ashby's satirical parable on the way the USA surrenders itself to homespun evangelicalism gives Peter Sellers the role of a lifetime.
January 02, 2011
Amazingly poignant performance by Peter Sellers.
December 19, 2016
Sellers has never been better and he embellishes the detached, childlike innocence of this character with perfect style and timing. It's a deceptively simple performance, but it is essentially the core and substance of the film.
July 08, 2014
A Gumpish plot? Perhaps, but Being There is much more subtle and enigmatic than that.
