Welcome, Mister Chance

Being There is also the title of an album of the American rock group Wilco.

Welcome, Mister Chance ( Being There ) is an American film carried out by Hal Ashby, left in 1979.

Synopsis

Washington, cd., the Seventies. A fore-mentioned gardener quinquagénaire Chance, man naive and simple, runs a life without clashes to take care of the garden of a calm property preserved in a district “at the risks” of the capital. He lives almost withdrawn of the world, never leaves, is never assembled in a car and its only distraction is the television, which he contemplates with assiduity and fascination.
Obliged to leave this house and this activity following the death of its employer, Chance is run up against, in the street, by a vehicle whose owner, Eve Rand, accommodate it in his residence to make him lavish care. Chance binds with Benjamin Rand, the husband, who, a little later receives the visit of the president of the the United States. Chance takes share with maintenance and this with such a naturalness that its sentences, distilled like proverbs of wisdom but, actually, directed “gardening”, will be taken for true oracles; it thus will become the whooping-cough of the capacity and the media.

Data sheet

French Title: Welcome, Mister Chance
original Title (English): Being There
Realization: Hall Ashby
Scenario: Jerzy Kosiński according to its novel Mr. Chance
Production: Andrew Braunsberg, Charles Mulvehill and Jack Schwartzman for International Northstar, Lorimar Film Entertainment, NatWest Ventures, BSB, CIP, Enigma, Fujisankei
Music: Johnny Mandel and Buffy Sainte-Marie, musical topic Allegro Moderato of Franz Schubert (extracted the 8th Symphony in so minor, called “Unfinished” the )
Image: Caleb Deschanel
Assembly: Gift Zimmermann
Decorations: Michael To haul
Costumes: May Routh
Sound: Frank E. Warner
Country of origin: the United States
Kind: Comedy
Lasted: 130 minutes (2. 10)
Coming out date: 1979

Distribution

Peter Sellers: Chauncey Gardiner, alias Chance
Shirley MacLaine: Eve Rand
Douglas Melvyn: Benjamin Turnbull Rand
Jack Warden: the president of the the United States, “Bobby”
Richard A. Dysart: Doctor Robert Allenby
Richard Basehart: Vladimir Skrapirov
Ruth Attaway: Louise
David Clennon: Franklin Thomas
Fran Brill: Sally Beam
Denise DuBarry: Johanna, the girl accompanying Franklin
Oteil Burbridge: Milk
Ravenell Keller III: Abraz
Brian Corrigan : the police officer in front of the White House
Alfredine Brown: the old woman
Donald Jacob: David

Rewards

1979 : Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards of the best actor in a supporting role for Douglas Melvyn
1980: Oscar of the best actor in a supporting role 1979 for Douglas Melvyn
1980: Golden Globe:

of the better actor for Peter Sellers
of the better actor in a supporting role for Douglas Melvyn

1981: BAFTA Award Film of the best scenario for Jerzy Kosiński
1981: Critics' Circle Film Award, special price for the career for Peter Sellers

Around film

This film is the last left living Peter Sellers.
Laurence Olivier was seen offering the role of Benjamin Rand, but he refused it after having read integral script while claiming not to want to play in a film where Shirley MacLaine masturbates.
the sentence “Life has state off mind” (the life is a frame of mind) registered on the tomb of Benjamin Rand and who is used as epilog with film, also is registered on the proper tomb of Peter Sellers, deceased one year after the exit of film.

See too

Poster of film on Cinefilm.com
Jacket of film on Amazon.com

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