Year : 1979
Country: USA
Genres: Drama,Comedy
IMDB Rating: 8
Director: Hal Ashby
Actor: Donald Jacob,Don Jacob,Jack Warden,Peter Sellers,Shirley MacLaine,David Clennon,Richard Dysart,Richard Basehart,Fran Brill,Melvyn Douglas,Ruth Attaway,Denise DuBarry,Oteil Burbridge,Ravenell Keller III,Brian Corrigan,Alfredine P. Brown

Plot Summary

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 becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.