Probably the best movie ever. At least to me it was. That is the one that Peter Sellers received the Oscar for. Most people had no idea what the movie was.
Sellers was absolutely brilliant in the film. Sometimes he gave us a hint of that irascible Sellers smile——but most of the time he was Chance.
“Being There” was a 1971 novella written by Jerzy Kosinski..... the screenplay was co-authored by Kosinski. I dont know if he meant it that way——but conservatives like the film b/c it makes wealthy, politically-connected liberals look stupid.......b/c they believe the simple Gardner is an intellectual——and that everything he says is politically savvy.
A nice touch was that it starred some of Hollywood’s well-known liberals-—Melvyn Douglas, and Shirley McClaine.