Being There (1979)

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What would happen if the American public got the leader it deserved?Peter Sellers plays an innocent and illiterate gardener who ends up themost influential man in Washington, D.C.--simply by Being There. Gentleand slow-witted Chance (Sellers) tends a garden on a palatial estate andknows nothing of the outside world except what he sees watchingtelevision. Then a limousine hits him, and everything changes. Elevatedto celebrity status by the limousine's powerful passenger, Eve Rand(Shirley MacLaine), Chance charms everyone, including the President ofthe United States (Jack Warden). Can his simple but wise gardeningmetaphors solve the country's complex problems? Chance helps peace growand flourish in this comic, cautionary fable about the power ofsimplicity.