Reviews

While the surface level humor of course exists in the space between what Chance says and does and how others interpret that (for example, a feverish rush to find out who he is leads several politicians to assume he may be a high-level operative), what gives the film an extra lift is simply the contr...

There's a couple of things the director did that I didn't like: I wasn't a fan of the outtakes during the film's credits and I read that Peter Sellers himself hated those and blamed the outtakes on him not be nominating for an Oscar.

It is indeed a slow start and the film could benefit from losing about 20 minutes, but I was surprised by how much I was invested in this character.

Sellers made a career of being able to inhabit all sorts of humourous characters even in films that were starkly serious, and while Being There does have a fundamentally comical premise, it doesn't go for broad laughs so much as a pointed melancholy even in its most obviously funny moments (such as ...

Fortune intervenes when Chance is hit by a limo that contains one Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine), who takes him home where he becomes good friends with Eve's husband, billionaire industrialist Benjamin Rand (Melvyn Douglas), who is fascinated by Chance's gardening analogies and applies them to politica...