A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance bec... omes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.
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Being There An Oscar-nominated Peter Sellers shines in his penultimate film. A simple gardener gets mistaken for a guru and finds himself imparting wisdom to the American nation
Think of Peter Sellers and you'll most likely think of Inspector Clouseau. But Sellers, whose Pink Panther films formed just a small part of an impressive film career, is at his best in Hal Ashby's comedy, tagged 'A Story Of Chance'.
Sellers is Chance, the simple gardener who has always lived within the confines of his master's mansion. He knows only about his plants, the television and his daily routine. But when his master dies, and he's cast onto the streets of New York, chance throws him (lite...
Almost five stars
After Harold And Maude, I think this has to be Hal Ashby's best film. Centred around a deserved nominated acting performance by Peter Sellers, in his last ever role, the film pulls off some simply ludicrious premises with increasingly hilarity. You won't die of laughing watching this but it is intelligently funny and tragic at the same time. I don't really know what to put really other than this is highly recommended.
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