Encyclopedia > Being There

  Article Content

Being There

Being There is a 1979 film which tells the story of a gardener who has been sheltered from the world by his employer. When the old man dies, the simple gardener must go out into the real world, where his confused comments are taken by jaded society as profound bits of wisdom. It stars Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden[?], Richard A. Dysart[?] and Richard Basehart.

It was adapted by Robert C. Jones[?] (uncredited) and Jerzy Kosinski from the novel by Kosinski. It was directed by Hal Ashby[?].

It won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Melvyn Douglas) and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Famous Quotes

I like to watch.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
242

... 190s 200s 210s 220s 230s - 240s - 250s 260s 270s 280s 290s Years: 237 238 239 240 241 - 242 - 243 244 245 246 247 Events Patriarch Titus[?] succeeds ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 36.3 ms