Being There (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) PG
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
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- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 21, 2017
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Sellers & Shirley MacLaine | |
Performer: | Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Basehart & Richard Dysart | |
Directed by | Hal Ashby | |
Edited by | Don Zimmerman | |
Screenplay by | Jerzy Kosinski | |
Composition by | Johnny Mandel | |
Art Direction by | James Schoppe | |
Produced by | Andrew Braunsberg | |
Director of Photography: | Caleb Deschanel |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1979 -
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas
Entertainment Reviews:
A brutal look at America and Americans that gently lifts up the mirror image that television gives us of ourselves, smashes it on the marble floors of our political institutions and holds a chunk of jagged glass to our throats. And then makes us laugh.
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Boston Globe
...A stately, beautifully acted satire....Sellers never strikes a false note...
New York Times
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] strange, evocative swan song whose charm is still strong after 30 years....It's an uncanny part for Sellers, who by repute was an empty vessel into which characters were poured.
Empire
A highly unusual and an unusually fine film.
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Variety
...A rare and subtle bird that finds its tone and sticks with it. It has the appeal of an ingenious intellectual game...
Chicago Sun-Times
4 stars out of 5 -- Peter Sellers redeemed himself with one last major turn in BEING THERE....This is an exceptional comedy...
Total Film
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.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's fortuitously struck by a limousine carrying Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine), the wife of a wealthy industrialist. He's mistaken, because of his well-tailored suits, for a man of means and taken to dinner with her husband, Ben Rand (Melvyn Douglas). There, as Chauncy Gardner, his blank affect is taken for seriousness and his literal pronouncements about gardening for metaphoric economic predictions. Soon he's meeting the president (Jack Warden) and becoming a star on TV--where he's a natural.
Kosinski was well known to be personally fascinated by the power of television. In BEING THERE, which he adapted for the screen himself, he presents a comic fable about a man whose entire sense of reality came from watching television. Sellers is marvelous as the always-deadpan cipher in whom everyone he meets sees whatever it is they need to see. Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, and Melvyn Douglas give outstanding performances in this biting satire directed by Hal Ashby.
Kosinski was well known to be personally fascinated by the power of television. In BEING THERE, which he adapted for the screen himself, he presents a comic fable about a man whose entire sense of reality came from watching television. Sellers is marvelous as the always-deadpan cipher in whom everyone he meets sees whatever it is they need to see. Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, and Melvyn Douglas give outstanding performances in this biting satire directed by Hal Ashby.
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