Being There

Being There

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Chance (Peter Sellers), a naive man, spends his whole life tending a garden and watching television, his only contact with the world. He never got into a car, he can't read or write, he doesn't have an identity card, in short: he doesn't officially exist. When his boss dies, he is forced to leave the house he's always lived in, and accidentally gets hit by the car of Benjamin Rand (Melvyn Douglas), a great tycoon who befriends him and even introduces him to the President (Jack Warden ). Interestingly, everything said by Chance or even his silence is considered genius. At the same time, Benjamin's health is critical and Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine), his wife, falls in love with Chance.