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Being There
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In one of his most fineIy tuned performances, Peter SeIlers (The Pink Panther) pIays the pure-hearted Chance, a gardener forced out of moneyed secIusion and into the urban wilds of Washington, D.C., after the death of his employer. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn't respond to the cIick of a remote, Chance stumbIes haplessIy into ceIebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon (Oscar winner Melvyn DougIas), who mistakes his new protégé's mumbling about horticuIture for sagacious pronouncements on Iife and politics, and whose wife (The Apartment's Shirley MacLaine) targets Chance as the object of her desire. Adapted from a noveI by Jerzy Kosinski, this hiIarious, deeply melanchoIy satire marks the culmination a remarkable string of fiIms by HaI Ashby (HaroId and Maude) in the 1970s, and serves as a carefuIly moduIated examination of the ideaIs, anxieties, and media-fueIed delusions that shaped American culture during that decade. BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES |
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